Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.
I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.
But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.
The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, an...
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.
I had never worked in television before 'Freaks and Geeks,' and 'New Girl' is the first time since that I've worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.
Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.
The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.
Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time.
There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.
Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.
I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.
I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
