I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

If I’d known a sixty-niner was the way to your heart I would have done it weeks ago.

Doubt is like a thorn you can't get a hold on.

To be happy, you need to dothe right thing for you, even when it feels like thehardest thing in the world.

Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Any upward movement is movement for us all.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.