There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

One never gets the same summer twice.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.