I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.