I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I was a geek in high school.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

I have drunk, and seen the spider."(Leontine, Act II Scene I)

Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.