When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.