Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.
An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.