Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an a….

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world..

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner t….

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose..

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women..

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eigh….

What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly ….

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt..

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder..

Decisions are made by those who show up..

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it..

I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the….

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? ….

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wa….

Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at 1950s, 1960s American sitcoms,….

I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back ….

The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just….

Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelli….

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind..

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

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there ….