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Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.
It's a very weird thing, making a true story, because you need your freedom, as filmmakers, to do what you need to do.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.
I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.
The octogenarians who have pictures of Hillary Clinton under their toilet-bowl covers - they've completely accepted me.
An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.
I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.
Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.
People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.
I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
There are so few good comedy sequels. The only one in recent memory that's good is '22 Jump Street.' It's a hard genre.
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!
When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.
Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.
No one's body is up for comment. No matter how small, how curvy, how round, how flat. If you love you, then I love you.
A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.
The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.
You don't necessarily have to watch something for 14 seasons. It's not necessarily the way everything's supposed to be.
It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.
Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.
I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
'Daredevil' is haunted by Frank Miller, from the standpoint of the Frank Miller run on 'Daredevil' is so insurmountable.
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.