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 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.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that youve had.

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.

Daydreaming is okay even better if you can make some lasting memory out of it.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny

I am a great person.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will never be with someone who never laughs or someone who chews disgustingly, so if either of those things are detected on a date - it's a total deal breaker.

I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost which partakes not of the vivacity of movement.

My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence for adding sweet measure of your soul to my existence.