For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.
I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.
Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
I can only control what I can control.
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.
...uncorny, human sized drama
I don't think I've ever stolen anything.
