Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week. " It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.
Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?
You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security. " Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security. " But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.