Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.
Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.
Okay, uh, I’m lost. I’m angry. And I’m armed.
Every time you work on a project, it’s a little vacation from the project you’re working on the other 23 hours. That’s the thing – it replenishes you to do something else.
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There’s nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.
The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.
You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That’s how my mind is employed.
Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?
There’s a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I’ve discovered. But there’s a lot of love.
Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.
Can’t stop the signal.
Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.
If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl – you find someone to carry you.
The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
If I kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.
You can’t take the sky from me.
Shiny, let’s be bad guys!
I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.