TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times.

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?