Top 20 Quotes by Jonathan Tropper

You never have to change a book for budget.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.

Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty.

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.