There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

Do no drown me with mediocrity, give me passion, desire, make me inhale breaths of lust and love in the dark hours that tingle down my spine...

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.

Suit your manner to the man.

The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.