We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.