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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.
When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.
It's 'When We Rise,' not 'When Gay People Rise.' It's about how everyone benefits when we lift up any one group in this country.
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.
I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.
For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.
Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.
When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
I'm not into being all 'film-y' and going to the premieres and parties. I tend to feel like the embarrassing uncle at a wedding.
The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.
Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.
There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.
I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.
I'm not afraid to say 'Jesus Christ,' and I'm not afraid to speak of those who worship him. After all, Jesus preached about love.
The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.
I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.
I think 'Oz' is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, that's pretty intense.
I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.
I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.
The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.
More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.
We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?
Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.
I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.
Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan.
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women.
When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier.
When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier.