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I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.
Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.
I don't need an Emmy to tell me to go to work. I've been working.
I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.
I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt.
That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.
I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.
Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.
It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.
Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.
When I was a kid, 'Robocop' to me was just good guys and bad guys.
If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.
Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.
Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.
I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist.
You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.
I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.
It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.
A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.
The most fun I ever had making a movie was the first 'Incredibles.'