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I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.
I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.
I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.
For us, we just start with the character. We think of Stifler, and that usually just leads to something that's outrageous.
Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.
It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?
I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good
All the writers for 'The Chi,' they're all phenomenal, so I'm just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.
TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.
Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"
People fight in New Orleans about what's the best po'boy, and Domilise's always comes up. It's the best one I've ever had.
Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams.
In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.
I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.
I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.
History is rife with stories of directors who got so obsessed that their films went massively over budget - out of control.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone else's.
That's what friends are for. The people who aren't in your life 'cause they're related, or hot for you. They just love you.
For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason.
For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.
Im not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. Thats that.
There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.
It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives
Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'
Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.
I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.
Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
You know you've have a good idea when you're lying awake at night going 'someone else is going to take it, I just know it!'
The cool thing about dope black style becoming in style is that the industry has no choice but to try and reduplicate that.
You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.
I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years.
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
When you only have $15 million, you have to talk about something interesting. You can't just cut to a helicopter exploding.
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
In the 'Days Of Future Past' comic, the aim is to go back in time to preserve peace for the lives of mutants in the future.
[Allied] meant to be a film that's a bit different. It's roots are in the '40s and '50s, and that sort of filmmaking style.
I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.