I want to get a gold star. And I know that there are places that I need to go in order to get the story right. I'd rather do it right than have to do it twice.

Nobody wants to have things blurted at them.

The people I really feel sorry for are all the writers out there who wrote these outrageous comedic romps about a grossly unqualified person who goes on to become a Vice Presidential candidate in a hotly contested presidential race. With hilarious results. They must be so bummed.

I want to go to someone's world. I'll buy it if the world is full of zombies - I'll live there if you give me a strong enough vision of what that world looks like.

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.

It's like you can't even go on the radio anymore and condemn a whole subset of people to hell without getting some blowback.

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.