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I have a notebook of concepts. There are titles everywhere if you are looking for them. I pull from them. There is a secret list that I keep for myself about what I want to sing about, and those are the ones I know I am not going to give up for someone else.

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

I think it's good news that cable television is so, so supportive of the Louis C.K.s, the Lena Dunhams, the Matthew Weiners, and the Vince Gilligans. There's just so many people fearlessly making their stuff, you know?

If I get an interesting script, I will surely do it. I just don't want to do cliche films.

I am going to pick on 'Huffington Post.' A lot of its content is great. They are doing a lot of original content now, but historically, a lot of what they did was aggregation. Newspapers don't want to become that, and yet 'Huffington Post' is incredibly popular. It's incredibly successful.

Young people have grown up watching so much content, and just to find something that they haven't seen before: that's the dream. When you stumble across a show, and you say 'I haven't seen this,' that's what we want.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

I just like to do things that people can remember, but I wanna always do my own album and make statements.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best writers and directors. And one thing that's really interesting about it is that it used to be, if you were on a big network show, like it or not, you were a household face and name. And believe it or not, not all actors like that. That's not their goal. They just like being actors. And there are so many actors that are on hit shows that I have never seen, I've never heard.

Good writing is always new.

Original movies of any size are an endangered species.