Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.