I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

I don't look too far ahead.

Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama!Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me... No.

Men are often miserable in relationships because they feel their partner takes them for granted, or shows him no appreciation for the things he gets right.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.