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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.
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.
Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.
It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.
[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.
To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.
I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I`ve known in my life. That`s just the truth.
I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.
That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign.
Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
When people have options for what they want to see, it forces the quality of programming and content to be higher.
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
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.
Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.
I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game.
With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.
When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero
I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.
Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.
I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.
Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.
My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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.
I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.