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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.
My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.
The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.
Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job.
When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.
Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know.
The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.
I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.
I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.
Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.
I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?
Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.
The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It's what you think.
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).
Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.
Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.
It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.