Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

How do you tell a story that you're a part of without it being a big ego trip?

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

I just don't like cinemas very much. And when I do see a film it depresses me.

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

For me, I was never really obsessed with Luke Cage. My obsession was Wolverine.

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

To cast Mr. Spock, I made a phone call to Leonard, and he came in. That was it.

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

Jessica Jones is the first female superhero Marvel's ever introduced as a lead.

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.

I've had more reaction to 'Peaky' than anything. People react really intensely.

I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.

Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

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