My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds.

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.