In television, the creator is really the voice...

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back

My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.

Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Life is a very emotional experience.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

He’d never been shy, but he’d always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn’t believe they liked him.

Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.