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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.
Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.
The reason there are so many opinions is that no one knows the Truth.
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.
Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.
I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.
People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.
People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.
One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.
Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".
When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
I think ultimately what makes the show is not the reality but the drama.
Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.
There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.
Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.
I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.
Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
I'm not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don't want anything spoiled.
I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.
I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.
Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.
I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.
She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.
I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.