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I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.
Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.
You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.
There's a studio formula of making a movie that Betty White fans and Ice Cube fans are going to love, so it's a really broad brush.
When we were doing 'Viva Variety,' we knew, 'Boy, this really cracks us up, but this is not for everybody. This is a little weird.'
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.
I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen.
Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.
I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.
We wanted it to be that you could go to the comic shop and read about the back story of 'Pacific Rim' and the drama inherent in it.
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.
I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.
In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.
I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.
If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?
It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.
If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.
In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.
I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.
When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, "When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't."
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.
My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'
Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one can believe in Woody Allen's innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to be a liar.
Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.
Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.
Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro's true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.
I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?
With FX in particular, they've been fantastic and were really hands off. I mean, it helps that you've got Ridley Scott on your side.
It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.
Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.
If I could pick any story idea or script I had that I wanted everything to go exactly right for, it would probably be 'Pacific Rim.'
I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.
I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.