I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.