My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you appreciate the anxiety that comes with having to try to sell a line, or with trying to own a character.

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.