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People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.
The reason there are so many opinions is that no one knows the Truth.
There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.
No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.
Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.
I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.
People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.
People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.
One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.
I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.
Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".
I think ultimately what makes the show is not the reality but the drama.
When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.
The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.
Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.
Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.
I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'
Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
I'm not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don't want anything spoiled.
I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.
We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.
I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.
Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.
I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.
I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.