Write what you’re scared about.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before.