An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.