I am a competitive person, but it's so hard to do a show. Anybody who gets to the point where they get their show on the air, I wish them the best. It's too hard. I'd rather waste energy thinking good things on myself.

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

It's impossible for me, without getting a big wide shot of Manhattan, to convince people that it's another day. But if we go to a commercial and we come up and people are in different clothes, you know it's another day.

Hate is more interesting than love.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.