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You've Got To Honor Your Relationship With Your Audience - That They Sit Down Because They Want To Be Entertained. And That Doesn't Mean You Can't Provoke Them And Antagonize Them And Challenge Them In The Course Of The Entertainment As Long As You Keep The Entertainment Part Of The Equation Alive.

I've Never Really Told Jokes. I'm Not Good At It.

I Gravitate Toward The Law, I Think, Certainly More Times Than Not, Because It's Our Best Mechanism For Legislating Human Behavior, And Morality, And Ethics.

If You Interview People Or Friends Who Work With Me, They Would Say I'm Private Or Internal Or Don't Emote A Lot. Yet I Do It Every Day For 10 Million People. I Just Don't Do It For The 30 People I'm In The Room With.

The Ideal Time For Writing A [television] Script Is Four Days, Though Sometimes It Has To Be Two Or Three Days Depending On The Deadline. If It's Two Days, Sometimes There Are Things I See That Don't Work As Well. If I Have Two Weeks, The Scripts Get Kind Of Flabby And Lack The Adrenaline That A Sense Of Deadline Fills You With.