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.

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.

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.

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

Twitter and Facebook and all of this stuff is, to me, I mean it's, for some reason - I'm probably not the youngest person using it. But for some reason, it works very well. I'm setting records.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.