Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.- Charley Davidson

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.