The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
I grew up loving fantasy, adventure, and children's book series. At the time, I was in a place in LA where I wasn't working and I kind of thought to myself, "What do I really want to do? Like, what kind of role would be really exciting for me?" And I sort of thought about being in an adventurous, magical, fantastical world and a character that was powerful and sophisticated and perhaps even a dandy, that might have even passed in my head, and then I got an audition for the show [Magicians]shortly after.