Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.