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Alfre Woodard is a powerhouse, master actor, but she's also someone that you want to interact with, someone that you want to talk to.
Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.
The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.
'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.
I've never read a script in which you are actively pulling for the protagonist in the beginning, but little by little, you lose that.
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.
The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.
Shondaland is my company. I run that mother. I am in charge. I am the leader. It's fantastic. It's also really hard. As it should be.
The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I see it played by somebody.
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
Legendary is in the unique position in that they have the resources to take risks, which I think has really benefitted 'Pacific Rim.'
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood out.
I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.
When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time
'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.
Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box.
I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.
Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
I remember going to 'The Wood' and leaving my friend and my mom, who I came with, to go sit in the front row because I was so excited.
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
Maybe I'm just not that humble but our script is awesome. Like Jason is so into the Muppets and such a fan. I'm such a fan of Muppets.
Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'
The 'Reno' movie is very solid. 'Balls of Fury' I'm pretty disappointed in - I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally.
I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.
I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.
It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.
I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.
I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.