When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves.

The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

No one's dropped a cent - there's no negative ads up against Donald Trump in Iowa which is crazy to think about.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.

Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.