The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

Write what you’re scared about.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.

Garner knowledge, by any means possible

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.