At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

Don't just write a to-do list write a to-be list.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.

God provides the men and women needed for each generation.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

It's not Trump who is insane. It's everybody who is predisposed to hate him.