If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.

You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.