When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

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

It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if someone gets hurt, then we didn't do our job, someone screwed up. The fight choreographers and the actors involved, we messed up somewhere.

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.