I’ve been to two festivals in my life, and I’ve never been to Toronto. I haven’t really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.
In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.
In TV, there’s so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you’re a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, ‘When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won’t.’
Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it’s very natural, but I know that it’s not always accessible to other people.
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.
I’m a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.
I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn’t work out. Immigration stuff – it’s complicated.
I’m not a control freak – I’m a control enthusiast.
No one’s going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.
I’m not big on regret. It’s not on my schedule.
They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.
As we all know, blinking lights means science.
I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...
If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.