You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great..

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting..

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, wha….

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college..

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once..

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while..

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be..

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say..

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space..

...uncorny, human sized drama.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement..

Great stories happen to those who can tell them..

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time..

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture..

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that..

I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to….

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt..

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky..

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers….

I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my frie….

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas..