“For me, if the writing and – by extension – the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn’t matter if it’s film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.”

I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.

I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic.

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

There’s something special about being on film sets; there’s an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films.

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.

My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you’ll know everything about them.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.