I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection t...
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.
Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.
My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show.
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.
I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.
People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.
My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.
I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person righ...
A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men...
Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.
