I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.