I don't like things that aren't true.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)