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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.
I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to work hard in 'Hoover.'
There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.
I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I'll stick with this.
When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine.
To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil 'Love' show.
Sketch shows change gears so drastically every two minutes. I think sketch shows are for sketch fans; they're not really for everybody.
After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms of production.
Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.
Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore.
What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.
This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.
What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.
We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.
I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.
I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.
Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.
I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.
I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.
Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.
The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.
The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point
Whatever film I'm making, no matter how harsh or edgy it is, there has to be a core underneath the ebb and flow of it that is heartfelt.
We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'
There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.
I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.
In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.
For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.