There’s definitely times when you’re frustrated for whatever reason, but that happens on fifty million dollar movies when you have a huge trailer, so who cares?

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

The time for thinkers has come.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.