Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.

Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

I like to give opinions, not suggestions

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.