I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder – as another exercise in self-involvement – rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you’ve got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you’re learning to say it better.
The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, ’til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
Don’t write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn’t going to aid the case.
People only speak to get something.
I won’t ever do e-mail.
I’m greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
I’m entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I’m an American.
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
I love Superman. I’m a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
I hate vacations. There’s nothing to do.
I don’t think there’s any information to be gotten from television.