I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it or you will never know what's beyond it.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.

I like old people when they have aged well.

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.