I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life’s craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

When I used to drive on the road from L. A., one time in Arizona we went off-road to see what weird little towns are around. Loved Bisbee.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.