I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.