I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going.