What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

You're living in the Caribbean in the United States and sometimes it's incredible blue skies and sometimes it's an incredible thunderstorm that kind of screams through, but I love that part of Florida.

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.