People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.
There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.
I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than anything, for me as an actor, it's about challenging myself and doing as many different things as I can.
I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism. "