What change are you seeking to make? — Define what the difference between point A and B looks like and then use that difference to determine how successful your work is.

Who’s the work for?

What’s it for?

What is the worldview of the audience you’re seeking to reach?

What are they afraid of?

What story will you tell? Is it true?

How will it change your status?

How will you reach the early adopters/neophiliacs?

Where’s the network effect that will propel this forward?

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

Pride and vanity the opposites of humility can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory.

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.

You learned the two greatest things in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers are the ones that created whatever it is - the urge to create.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.