"I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears."

“It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.”

“Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day you wake up and find there are peacocks and giraffes. Nature is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a DNA code, and ours is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a crochet code.”

“The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.”

Source : "James Spader on His Eccentric Lincoln Character". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. November 21, 2012.

“I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.”

Source : "Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on the future of the company: part one" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

“I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.”

“Since - in my belief system - we each get only one go-round here on planet Earth, it is the task of the writer to interpret, examine, and reflect on the specifics of their one and only life experience.”

Source : Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

“There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.”

“I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.