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

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

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.

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

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.

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.

A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whats in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

America was built on her citizens.

"Oscillate Wildly" is in many ways a story of first love and how it challenges our hero's guarded sense of what's possible.