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I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.
I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?
Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.
I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.
Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.
Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.
Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'
Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.
Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body.
You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.
I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.
I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.
I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.
Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.
I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way.
Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.
I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.
There's been a big black hole in the middle of the country as far as TV production goes.
Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?
Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.
We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.
...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.
I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.
To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.
Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss
People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.
I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.
The drive to be a parent is strong. It's one of the most ingrained human traits there is.