You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If its not fun, whats the point.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

TV is the place that writers want to be.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.