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I'm big on research.
I have a lot of nightmares.
I took some time out for life.
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.
Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.
My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.
If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.
Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.
I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.
When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.
When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.
Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It's wild.
I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.
If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.
I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.
I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.
I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.
I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
I saw 'Annie Hall' with a group of people working in comedy and television. We were all stunned. Stunned. It was like watching a spaceship land. That something that funny could also be that beautiful.
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.
It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.'
The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.