I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

Confession without repentance is just bragging.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?