People love that monkey torture.
I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.
The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.
Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).
This visa-waiver thing is absurd. Has anybody in the West been targeted by any Iranian national, anybody of Iranian origin, or anyone travelling to Iran? Whereas many people have been targeted by the nationals of your allies, people visiting your allies, and people transiting the territory of, again, your allies. So you're looking at the wrong address.
I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.
Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.