Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

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

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

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.