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One of the great things about being married to my husband, who is also an impossible dreamer, is that we just do things.
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.
To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.
I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.
I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.
TV is just such a fast-moving medium that you do what you can do, and what you can't do, you don't worry about too much.
I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!
Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.
That is always really fun when you get to work with a director you understand and uses references you can identify with.
The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.
It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.
Black women are the most passionate commentators, and even as black female geeks and nerds, they are rarely acknowledged.
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.
I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.
Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.
I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.
I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.
My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.
Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.
I love the BBC. I love working with the BBC. They leave you alone; they give you zero notes. It's like being on vacation.
Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.
We didn’t come to earth to get anything. We came to awaken our full potential and infuse this dimension with divine light.
Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.