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If we're not shooting, if we're not filming, if you're not standing on the soundstage, turn off your phone and go live your life.
In terms of how [Allied] looks, it's fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it's so lush and so beautifully executed.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.
I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.
I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.
During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.
During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.
I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.
And the film that I've seen a million times is 'When Harry Met Sally' with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and directed by Rob Reiner.
I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut down to size a little bit.
People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.
Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.
We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?
I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
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Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy
I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.
If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.
I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!
In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys.
I binge pretty much everything. If I'm watching something, I'm bingeing it. I binged 'The Good Place' recently. 'Handmaid's Tale.'
I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.
There used to be grandparents who would say that if you were misbehaving the Peaky Blinders would get you, they were the bogeymen.
The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.
I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville.
My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on their glasses, and it's just fun.