I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.