I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.
The time has come for professional jurors.
Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
The O. J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance,. . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.
I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.