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My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

I am never the favourite, but I live for that.

I really put my feet into my music, I have a say in how I want my music to sound and where I want it to go which is great.

I once did a film in which I was being chased by wolves. I had a scene where the Alpha of the pack leapt on the hood of my car and stared me down through the windshield. I will never forget staring...

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.

When people are telling stories on screen, you can show the reactions of people, play it off those reactions, and it can be fun. But when it's someone just giving an opinion on things, even if the...

I don't go to the gym. I've always been very athletic and kept very active. I used to run track. I literally have no desire to get a gym membership.

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

You accept people and you love people for who they are and that's that.

I've done plenty of things which haven't been very good. Stuff that's not worked or lasted more than one series.

We used to burn tons of crackers earlier, but when I realized the effects they have on our environment, I stopped burning them. We have been celebrating cracker-free Diwali for 15 years now.

I love getting to be creative with work!

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison...

You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated style, 'cause they give you all these free clothes.

I have a lot of respect, whatever format I play.

I am a big fan of the five-bowler strategy.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.