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What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.