You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.