Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much you feel so guilty.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason.
I can talk to my dad like he's my manager and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.