It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past.

I bought this place for a pittance, because it was a dump. Rejected, abandoned, unwanted. Like me. I fixed it up. Made it mine.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.