I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.