The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.
There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.
You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.
If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.
Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.
The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art
I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be.
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.