One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.