I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.