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I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.
I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'
I try to make all the action in my movies subjective: to give a sense of what it would feel like to actually be a part of it.
I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or screenplay.
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.
I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.
"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."
I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'
I think, to me, I always want to tell the truth. I never want to sugarcoat things. I've never been accused of pulling punches.
Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.
I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.
What strikes me as memorable about 'Predator' was a lot of the decisions that were made so quickly turned out to be so iconic.
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.
I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.
The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.
I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film - then you can layer in thematics.
There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.