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On staying in control of what's truly your own.
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Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live...
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
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For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.
Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?
It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it...
I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.
I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.
It's not a long-term business model to take advantage of your consumers in ways that are not sustainable.
When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and...
It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.
