I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.

I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.