I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

I've discovered that I can't trust the ratings board at all, because they have - to my mind - a perverted point of view about what's appropriate for children. They think that if you see any part of a male or female anatomy, we have to protect children from it, which is not true, and they think almost any level of violence is okay for children, which is absolutely not true... They're really off the mark.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.