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I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.
A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.
All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.
Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
I'm comfortable in my own skin and surroundings. I don't think I get overshadowed by my husband or his personality.
I'd love to be a filmmaker and look back and be like, 'Ah, man, we were part of that whole '80s video nasty thing!'
I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.
Pause and remember - If you just keep moving forward, everything you need will show up for you at the perfect time.
I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.
I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.
The first writer I developed a script with was John Hughes, and that was 'Mr. Mom.' That was my first feature film.
Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.
I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.
We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.
Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.
Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something.
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)
Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.
It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.
Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.
Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.
To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take.
I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.
Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.
The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs.
That's my goal, to feel like I've done the best I could. When I've done that, anything else that happens is a bonus.
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.
You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.
"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.
As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.