I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal.
Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.
I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.
There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.
I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.
You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.
Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.