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On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.
My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.
I like collaborating with actors. I love finding that moment where it all comes together.
Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.
I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.
As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.
Any movie that deals with an AI computer voice stands in the long, long shadow of '2001.'
Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.
When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.
With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.
Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.
'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.
The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights.
You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions.
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure
Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes
Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.
I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.
I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.
When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.
All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.
The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others.
Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.
One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
I've thrown way more movie parties than real parties. My real life is so much more boring.
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.
I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.
If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.
I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.