The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise.

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

I respect television in a way that some people who came out of film might not.

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

I love a good romantic comedy.

I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've only worked on things that I love. I've had a lot of heartbreak, but you don't become an artist and not expect that.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.'

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

The more you can create a structure by which people live in a fantastical situation and by which they will act, and the more you lay that out for the audience, the more they will feel at home in it.

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

You learn something every time you make a mistake.