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Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.
Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.
There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.
I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.
You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.
In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.
The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results.
When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.
A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.
My girlfriend still doesn't know why her sweaters are always stretched out.
I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.
We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.
One of the things that made American Pie great was also the sexiness of it.
Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.
I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.
Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.
I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.
I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.
Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.
People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.
The most fun part of making a horror movie is watching it with an audience.
I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.
I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
What's special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.
It doesn't matter what your ideology is, people don't like to [be] lied to.
To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.
The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever
Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.