Doing Quotes

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,

The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there’s, like, a remake, or you’re doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.

Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

Reality is painful — it’s so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you’re good at or else to pick something so hard there’s no point at which it’s obvious you’re failing — but it’s impossible to get better without confronting it.

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you’re doing is examining, then you’re not living!

I asked them to sit down since I’d come to walk around. I didn’t want them doing me favours.

Nowadays people always say, ‘How come he’s doing such young shows?’ But they never mention ‘The Mod Squad’. I was very proud of that show. It’s the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

Right now I’m doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it’s a lot of good work. It’s fun to do it, but it does wear you out.