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You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.
One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.
The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.
Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach
The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.
Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.
Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.
I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.
My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.
For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.
If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.
I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar
I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.
I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.
Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.
The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.
I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.
I like it when characters respond to things that are outrageous and movie-like in an authentic way.
When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.
What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.
I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.
Growing up, I didn't just watch 'The Cosby Show.' I watched 'Growing Pains' and 'Family Ties,' too.
Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.