Tom Selleck Quotes

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

I suppose I do have an interest in stories that show complexity.

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

The best cinema is about ethics.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

The reason that some motion-capture films don't work is if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren't engaging, then you don't believe in the journey, and you're not connected to it. It's not the technology's fault.

I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.

I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

I think it's really important to have good quality drama on TV.

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.