I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

Paul Hollywood's "You're under baked" is even better than "You're fired."

You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

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

This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.