It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain