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I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

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I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

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I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

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I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

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I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

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There's no shortage of material in life.

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I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

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No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

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I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I see at least the prose elements of scriptwriting.

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