You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.