I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I heard her. When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.