I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.