Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.
When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.
Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing. . . sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.
Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.