Showrunner

🇺🇸Tina Fey

Entertainment

b. 1970

"By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life."

🇺🇸Tyler Perry

Entertainment

b. 1969

"I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well."

🇺🇸Aziz Ansari

Technology

b. 1983

"If you look at our country's history, change doesn't come from presidents. Change comes from large groups of angry people."

🇺🇸Issa Rae

Literature

b. 1985

"“I was trying to stand out, trying to be the class clown and be super-funny. But everybody thought I was lame and hated me…I’ve experienced that real sense of feeling out of place plenty in my life."

🇨🇦Charlie Brooker

Literature

1932–2020

"Hello, I'm Charlie Brooker and you're watching Screenwipe, a programme all about television."

🇬🇧Steven Moffat

Medicine

b. 1961

"Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger."

🇺🇸Natasha Lyonne

Entertainment

b. 1979

"Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying."

🇲🇽Louis C.K.

Entertainment

b. 1967

"They charged me 15 dollars. That's how much it costs to only have 20 dollars."

🇺🇸Denis Leary

Entertainment

b. 1957

"...and there aint a goddamn thing anybody can do about it, you know why? Because we've got the bombs! That's why, yeah! Two words: NUCLEAR FUCKIN' WEAPONS! OK?!"

🇺🇸Dan Harmon

Entertainment

b. 1973

"If you like Dexter, you'll love Daryl, my new show about a baby rapist - with a HEART OF GOLD?! HUH?! Like Showtime, but freeeeeee!"

"The border is a notion too. It’s a mood. It’s a culture…after living seven years on the border, and I really was speaking in two tongues—I was dual person back then…"

🇺🇸Amy Sherman-Palladino

Literature

b. 1966

"I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling."

🇺🇸Katori Hall

Literature

b. 1981

"I always say that I’m a writer who writes more from place than race."

🇺🇸Seth MacFarlane

Entertainment

b. 1973

"The work of Carl Sagan has been a profound influence in my life, and the life of every individual who recognizes the importance of humanity's ongoing commitment to the exploration of our universe."

🇺🇸Lena Waithe

Literature

b. 1984

"I'm a person that documents the lives of people of color…So that way, when we're gone, no one will forget we were here."

🇺🇸Aaron Sorkin

Literature

b. 1961

"Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now."