“My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working ...” — Stephen J. Cannell Quote

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.

Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

I've become obsessed with preserving Shaker furniture. I feel as though every influence in my life, everything I've learned and know, all the money I've made, has come together to take care of it.