Everyone's journey is completely different.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.