You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

You just have to fight your way through.

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.