Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.

The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Listening is the essence of anything.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker, ” he said, and let go of her.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.