You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back ….

I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you k….

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls..

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor..

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly..

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhy….

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ….

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all..

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your ….

I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things..

The whole world is out of time!.

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made..

I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the b….

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants..

This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and k….

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes fam….

With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working wi….

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices..

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer..

You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be s….

I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sad….