You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.