"Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're…"

"Is it (Sports Night) a comedy or a drama? That's generally not a question I try and answer for myself before I'm goin…"

"People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn."

"I love writing but I hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says. " You may have fooled some of the people s…"

"The worst crime you can commit is telling the audience something they already know, in any fashion, even for a moment."

"The problem I had when I wrote The Social Network was that this thing that’s supposed to bring us closer together is …"

"Decisions are made by those who show up."

"Yeah, that story’s not finished. We have more things written already and figured out for it to finish, but somebody’s…"

"The kids’ business of animation is pretty much gone at this point, but adult animation has been steadily rising for t…"

"When my career dies, and I can’t sell a project or do anything else, that’s when [Dexter’s Laboratory] will return to…"