So often, the best way to figure out who has a shot at winning is by eliminating those that you're pretty sure don't.

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

The adventure you're ready for is the one you get!

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I think, if I've learned anything over the years, it is that every single season is a unique one.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

I'm not one of these guys who says 'Now I'm on a really hot show. Better quit soon before I get labeled.' That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

I really had no idea when I pitched the series that it would lead to so much fun and so much connecting with kids and moms.

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.