Maz Jobrani Quotes

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well.

I never took creative writing.

I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.

I've always had a lot of story ideas rattling around in my head, but 'Nimona' felt very tangible very early. I knew the ending. So I just started making more and more pages, and then I made it a webcomic, like, 'OK, I'm really gonna do this.'

I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now, at least at this point, is to try to direct again.

I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

The only thing I want to do is focus and get better.

The things I want to do mostly involve writing.

I liked writing before I figured out I liked acting.

Just have to worry about making sure I'm playing my game and doing all that.

I think the right way to work is by focusing on each task at hand and then move forward.

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.

If I'm not with my family or playing football then I'm usually in my office writing and drawing.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

I have had a lot of dreams come true as a writer... I've gotten to work with artists I adored as a reader; I've gotten to write characters that changed my life as a kid.

I just want to be able to do it all just because that's what life is.

I don't consider myself a great multitasker, so I try to do one thing at a time, even though there were opportunities when I was wrestling.

I always work on my mind and my game.