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The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.
You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.
My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.
Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.
We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!
We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.
I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.
The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town.
Capra always wanted a screenwriter with him, even on the soundstage. The writer had to be there at his side.
I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.
The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.
One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.
It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.
There have been times when I've shaved twice in the same morning because I've forgotten I've shaved already.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.
Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
It's important to for your kids to see themselves in their superheroes. Really, it's important for all of us.
Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
With 'Rubicon,' Mark Long and Dan Capel have created the perfect environment for an intense action franchise.
I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.
Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.
The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.
I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
The reason I get so excited about 'Master of None' is because it's showing people of color as regular people.
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.
Kurt Vonnegut and I - it's not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him.
Comedy works in fashion cycles, in a way. And sometimes, studios will imitate those cycles a little too much.
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.
Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.
I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.