Im a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play World of Warcraft, Im a massive gamer, I have Star Trek outfits.

Im married to my job. Im obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

I've never had a day at work where I wasn't thrilled and grateful to be there, wherever that might be.

I was never interested in anything, particularly. I didn't get through school. I was a layabout. So, I started working at a theater to earn some money, as a part-time job.

I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.

While there are things with this job that remain constant, in terms of how you shoot, the actual crux of the character is always different and always evolving.

I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

I would have liked to have worked with Carrie Preston. I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life.

There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

Everybody wants to be in the next Marvel movie.

Im massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.