You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
I know I work quite hard at making people like me.
To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
I like to work at night.