We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

The only way to not get criticized is to not do anything.

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.