"I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage."

"My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background."

"Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something."

"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else."

"You can't trust very many people."

"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."

"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement."