“There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.”

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.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

With full knowledge that the person you married has agreed.

We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.

I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

You put deadlines on people you really don’t want, because that’s how you feel about them.

I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.

In journalism, if there’s a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you’ve got a 4 p.m. deadline.

With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.