My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.

It's difficult to say no sometimes. I often hear, "They'll really take care of you," or "Someone else is going to take the role if you don't play it." Some of the best advice I ever received was to always ask myself: Am I going to kill myself if somebody else takes this role? The answer is almost always no.