I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If its not fun, whats the point.

TV is the place that writers want to be.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.

We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.

The greatest leaders can inspire you and lead the way without ever having to give you their back.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

Climbers have no sense of smell.

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.