When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.

The truth was that I didn't want a career in the conventional business world.

I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.