When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it or you will never know what's beyond it.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have.

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.