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My Father - Until The Day That My Dad Died - Didn't Know How Many Points You Scored In A Touchdown. He Could Say There Were Nine Innings In Baseball, But No Intricacies Of The Sport.

The Interpretive Element Of "lost," The Fact That You Immediately Need As Soon As The Episode Is Over To Seek Out A Community Of People To Express Your Own Thoughts About It, Understand What They Thought About It And Form An Opinion, That's The Bread And Butter Of The Show.

I Have Found, Unfortunately, That If I Take On Too Many Projects At One Time, There Is A Higher Probability Of Those Projects Sucking.

Good Twists Are Enormously Hard To Come By, And I Think The Best Ones Are Earned Ones. The Idea That A Story Can Take A Left Turn On You, It's Easy To Do, But It Has To Be Done Very, Very Carefully, Or Else You Risk Losing The Audience's Trust.

I'm Trying To Focus As Much On The Here And Now As Possible. To Live My Life In A Way That The Humans That I Know Here On The Planet Earth Feel Like They've Been Treated With Respect By Me, Whether They're People That I'm Very Close To Or The Audience Who's Watching My Work.