If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.