You can’t be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.
Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me.
The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don’t have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.
If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.
The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn’t have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them – they are a business model, run by business people.
If something isn’t working, if you have a story that you’ve built and it’s blocked and you can’t figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It’s brutal, but sometimes inevitable.
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.
Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.
Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It’s the best.
There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible, their reactions to it are very normal.
The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it’s the hardest thing to do.
So, no more running. I aim to misbehave.
Sketchy: I’m no stranger to stoner logic.
We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that – knowing that no matter how much you say, ‘I am this’ and part of you is not that – means that you can say it.
A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend.
Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.
I’m totally cool. I’m totally calm, and I’m totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.
Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.
There’s a reason Tony Stark makes fun of ‘Thor,’ and mentions ‘Shakespeare’ in the park in ‘The Avengers.’ It’s great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing.