“Motherhood changes everything.”

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat.

Food is so important – it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun.

Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

They only go after what they know they can get.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.

Taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

I’ve learned one important lesson in my life, and I’m going to share it with you.

I’m very organized – and the best thing – when you love your work.

You don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.

The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things.

Some artists never see their work in front of an audience.

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

Being older now, grown, I’m like, ‘What do we really do that’s fun?’ I’m kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.