I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
To be quite honest, my fans growing up were my friends' parents. Like, 30-plus was, like, 'Mad Men' age group.
Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.
My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old Pakistanis in the crowd, I'd be like, 'I'm gonna bomb.'
Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.
My school is about 25 percent black, but the way we're covered doesn't reflect that.
I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily you're demographic, it is a much harder road.
White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.
