I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.