I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

That's the real joy, when somebody else comes up with something that you haven't even thought of, that's better than what you would have thought of, and you get to ride that. The joy of discovering that is what would make me want to show-run again. It's the best team sport, ever.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.