I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.
Scenes on phones are really boring!
I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.
Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.
'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.
Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'
On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!
I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'
The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.
I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.
I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.
I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.
The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.
The best feeling you can ever have when you're working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.
Women want to watch the dark stuff.
Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.
You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
