During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.
If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell. '
Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
I wanna keep being productive and creative.
The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
The foot that is familiar with the grass belongs usually to a man of lighter heart than he whose soles seldom wander from the pavement; and the best elixir vitæ is a run, as often as we can contrive it, amid the sweets of new and lovely scenery, where nature sits, fresh from the hand of the Creator, almost chiding us for our delay.
Every time I look at my children, they remind me to work harder and become a better man.
Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.