If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

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.

[What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.