The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you.

I feel one shouldn't turn director unless one is compelled to tell a story.

I would like to direct. I am also happy helping other directors realise their vision. I am happy being a cog in a wheel.

I don't think people are interested in knowing the what, when, where and how of my life.

I generally don't talk about my personal life. It is one area that I like to keep to myself.

I am a huge fan of animation.

Ironically India is the hub of animation outsourcing, but our own productions have been anything but fabulous.

Since, I have become a parent... I feel if you sit down and get through your child and use one's understanding to teach them something... Is the easiest way.

Fears are a part of our personality.

We should accept our fears and try to overcome them.

There have been years when I had no films.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.

There is such wastage of money in masala films!

My diploma was in film and videography and I then went to a film academy in New York, where I trained in acting as well.

My mom's last name is Bob. My dad's last name is Waksberg. Every time I try to get a ticket at will call, they say last name. And I say, Bob-Waksberg. And I see them looking under W. I go, no, Bob-Waksberg. And they go, no, last name. And I go no, my last name is Bob-Waksberg.

I am a big fan of 'Rick and Morty.'

BoJack Horseman' would make sense in the world of 'Rick and Morty,' but it's hard to imagine Rick and Morty in the world of BoJack.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit' is one of my favorite movies of all time, and in fact it is maybe the first movie that I really loved in an adult way.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

It takes great strength and courage to ask for help.

I think '300 Arguments' is a real tiny wallop of a book. It looks very slim, and at first, each little two-sentence or one-sentence thing kind of stands on its own, but again, as you read it, you get sucked into the momentum of it, and the whole of it is much larger than the sum of its parts in a really beautiful way.

It's something I've seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I think being a showrunner, you have a lot of unchecked power and I think that can be a very dangerous thing.

Any show that kind of relish the damage of its main character without really investigating what that damage does, where it's from or what it means, is a show I think needs to be taken down a peg.

I really believe that comedy is an incredible tool, and you can use it in many ways.

I thought it would be a fun change of pace to do a show about a really sad, depressed character.

I thought it would be fun to make a cartoon about this sad, misanthropic horse.

Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

I really liked the idea of a talking horse in a human world.

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big fan of writing less than perfect things.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

With Bojack we are seeing him on this journey. I think we're hoping for him to find a way to be more gracious and kind and positive and better to people in his life and better to himself, but I don't know if I necessarily frame it as he was a bad person and he will become a good person.

I named him Todd Chavez after a guy I went to middle school with, whose last name was Chavez and who I always liked. He had a good energy, and something about his spirit felt Todd-appropriate.

I wanted BoJack to be more of a cautionary figure than someone that you aspire to be.

Netflix really trusts us. We don't get a lot of network notes. They're not coming back all the time like, 'Oh, this is too sad,' or 'This is too weird.'

When we started on 'BoJack,' it was understood that the Netflix model was to give shows time to find an audience, and to build that audience, and I remember being told, 'We expect the biggest day 'BoJack' Season 1 is going to have is when we launch 'BoJack' Season 2.'

Netflix is looking for interesting ideas from interesting creators. They really want to help me make the show I want to make.

I'm excited when any Netflix show comes out. I'm like, 'Yeah, Netflix! Doin' great! We're all on the same side.'

I've written six seasons of a TV show with great help from an incredible staff of writers and other collaborators, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I've kind of freed myself of the expectation that I ever will.

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

I don't believe there is any line bad enough that a good actor can't save.

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

I have a short attention span.

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky' by Lesley Nneka Arimah blew my mind.

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

I'm very interested in telling darker stories that maybe you are not used to seeing in animation. Especially because in animation you don't see those kind of stories.

If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for a walk is very helpful for a writer because if you are staring at a blank page of a computer screen there is all this pressure.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.