Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person. "
You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.