Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.
If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.
In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.
The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the 'Rocky' director pantheon.
If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.
In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.
Quite honestly, I'm so happy to be Jonathan's wife and my children's mum that anything else is a bonus.
I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.
I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.
It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.
I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.
I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.
Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country.
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?
I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.
I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.
I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.
I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
Honestly, what 'Luke Cage' is - it's a hip-hop Western. And you have Luke Cage as the sheriff of Harlem.
The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned
The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame
I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.
No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.
Everyone from Canada and from here contributed [to the Sausage Party] - it truly is, like, every market.