My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kidbut stay focused.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

To understand the principle of love is to eradicate wrong acts

Be first: achieve every dream.

If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.

When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.