With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kidbut stay focused.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars.

A hero is one who can never stop fighting for truth no matter the oppression

Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

Time is the dressing room for eternity.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.