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There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.
I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully.
For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.
I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'
Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.
It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.
Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.
I'm not actually terrified of technology. Though I'm certainly not an early adopter, either.
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.
I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.
That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.
After everything I've been through, the last thing I'm going to apologize for is my paranoia
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.
I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.
It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.
I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.
It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me.
'Carnival Row' is us looking at the stranger; 'The Curiosity' is the stranger looking at us.
I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.
Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.
I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one.
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.
Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.
My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.
My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.
People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way.
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.