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With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.
There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.
A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.
A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.
Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.
I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore.
You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.
If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.
There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.
You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.
I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.
I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!
I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie.
Sometimes people don't want to be empowered because they are afraid of being the person to make the decisions.
I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.
Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.
The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.
Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.
You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.
Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future.
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.
It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.
As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.