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Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.
I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter for a long time and I know that is not actually a popular position.
Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.
Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
The worst thing you can do is animate something and then throw it out because it doesn't work story-wise.
Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.
Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.
Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.
We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.
I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.
I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.
Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.
Maybe I'm a product of my era, but I just enjoy the practical effects of 'The Thing' more than CGI aliens.
The two times I had nervous breakdowns in my life were when I graduated from college and had my first kid.
For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.
L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad.
One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.
The way Steven Spielberg sees the world has become the way the world is communicated back to us every day.
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.
I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible.
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.