I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.