I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.