DIRK BENEDICT

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

The best things in life are usually difficult.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Life: my favorite occupation.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Movies are movies, television is television.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

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

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!