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" My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something. "

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" I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird? "

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" I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder. "

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" I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories. "

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" I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. "

" I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. "

" You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan. "

" Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center. "

" From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts. "

" My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. "

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" People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write. "

" I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life. "

" I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down. "

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