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.

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.

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

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.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

To pursue kingdom understanding of what makes its lifestyle work on earth ask specific kingdom questions

Life is an act at a given moment.

Ignite the boldest of your dreams!

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

All of us are embarrassed by some of what we are.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.