To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.