I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.