There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.