Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

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.

Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.