I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

In the world today , it’s easy to quit. I believe in putting up the fight.

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show

I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

Blood always aids blood, my friend.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.

Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.

In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.