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

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.

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.

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets

We don’t drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!