It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live one life, and so you get to see other lives through these characters.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.