"I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it."

“Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.”

Source : "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

“I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.”

Source : "Woods". Song by Justin Vernon, 2009.

“Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.”

“With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on slavery. You would think 150 years later this had all become pretty historically incontestable. Yet millions continue to contest it in the face of history. Rather the denial of slavery and all its monstrous repercussions defines to one twin America what the country is and means, and therein is the DNA of those "alternative facts" that people believe when they can't stand to believe the truth.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.”

“As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.”

Source : Textbook of Medicine

“Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.”