It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.

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.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.