I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.

Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.

A hungry man is an angry one.

It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.