A biography for David Hewletthasn’t been written yet.
“I actually am a computer nerd.”
“I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.”
“I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'”
“If I was Leo DiCaprio or someone similarly gifted and successful I wouldn't be writing. I'd be too busy acting in all the best scripts in town to try and write them!”
“When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.”
“'Cube' was the first big science fiction film I was a part of. It was a fantastic directorial debut by one of my oldest friends Vincenzo Natali and it remains one of my most painful and uncomfortable roles. It's also one of my favorites.”
“I always thought there were two kinds of males in the world: the ones who look good naked and the ones who look funny naked.”
“The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.”
“I wanted to try directing.”
“My father took me and my about-to-be-traumatized friends to Stanley Kubrick's '2001' for my 10th birthday party.”
“You had to do some club after school and it was either the sports or the intellectuals. And right smack in the middle was the acting thing for all the outcasts, which I fell into pretty easily.”
“When a kid says 'I'm in astrophysics at school because of your character' that's amazing to me.”
“The comedy and character interaction on 'Atlantis' is what makes it so different from most science fiction shows.”
“Bad guys are always fun. It's one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.”
“My mother says my first television experience was hiding behind the sofa watching John Pertwee's 'Doctor Who.' I loved that show.”
“Art, location, money - I say as long as you've got one of them, you're fine.”
“The actor's dream is to come in knowing that you're only supposed to do one episode and then come back because people liked it.”
“I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.”
“My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.”
“So I think the popularity of the Internet at the same time as the show made a big part of this sort of groundswell of support for 'Stargate.'”