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Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.
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.
It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.
Sometimes when you're creating something, it takes on a life of its own, and you can be surprised at how sad or dramatic it might get.
I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.
I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.
Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or in CG.
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.
I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.
Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience.
The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.'
When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.
'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.
It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.
I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.
Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.
In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.
For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.
What I have learned the most is that women have always been integral to shaping America; they just haven't been recognized across all fields.
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing.
If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.
The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.
Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.
I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.
'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 think that America is more diverse than ever before, and is continuing to become more diverse, and our content should and is reflecting that.
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
That occurs everywhere, unfortunately. Powerful, smart women who make it to the end sometimes are not seen as the same charismatic likable guys.
I remember one guy saying, "You're the only human out of all of them," and feeling a little concerned that somehow that meant I wasn't as funny.
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.