I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

What happens to you as an individual is you plus the world rather than you alone.

Dying was never as hard as having to live again.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Success does not come all at once; even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.