Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

San Diego was fantastic. I think there's something about San Diego that is quite different than Los Angeles.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

I don't really sit there and think, 'What would I like my life to be?'

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if it's hard to see right now.

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

Existence is Identity consciousness is identification.

Your inner strength is your outer foundation.

Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

And for those who fear Allah, he will make their path easy.

I try to focus on what I'm supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it's supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.

The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'