I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.