Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.