It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

The whole world is out of time!

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Now a small woman, with dangerous curves. I could bite into her.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.