My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.

My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

SNL was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I dont have any regrets.

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.