I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.