I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show. And that's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is, and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.