I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.
I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.
As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.
The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.
There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.
Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it. '
The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once. . . I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.
I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.