I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing..

I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affect….

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it..

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it..

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work..

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane..

I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans ….

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as po….

The problem is that if we had known Satan was taking over the world we would have needed a whole other budget for, like, dragons and flying demons an….

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama..

I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place wher….

The dance world was a big part of my growing up..

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory..

The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They'r….

It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works o….

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows..

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft a….

You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and f….

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless..

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater..

Gilmore Girls was the highlight of my ridiculous life. I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist….