I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Life: my favorite occupation.

Movies are movies, television is television.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

The best things in life are usually difficult.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

The space genre is timeless.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.