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Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.
I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.
I'm like a geek that grew up playing with Star Wars toys and creating action sequences, essentially, with toys.
I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.
I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.
He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest.
Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.
Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake City.
Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
A lot of times when a film is a success, the fans of that film take ownership of it - it becomes their property.
I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.
Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.
I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.
I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments.
I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now
When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.
The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.
The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.
The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.
I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.
The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.
It's a weird little anomaly about horror films in that the more money and noise you have, the less scary it gets.