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We're living in post-nuance online times.
Success is always less funny than failure.
I consider myself a social justice person.
My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.
Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.
I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.
I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.
Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!
I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.
Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.
If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.
The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing.
Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.
Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together.
Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.
But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.
I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!
Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.
Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.
It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.
It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.
Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.
When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.
Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work.
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.
Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad.
I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.
The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.
Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.