I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
I'm a maniacal perfectionist.
I watched horror movies way too young and one of my favorite horror movies was The Shining. Jack Nicholson's character in that just bore a hole in my brain, his weird, maniacal controlled stuff. Obviously Mara in Village of the Damned wasn't an alcoholic and didn't have emotional, crazy outbursts. She was very non-emotional. But it was that sort of evil that I was tapping into.
Being maniacal about something is very helpful.
Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
I'm still on the edge. It's just that I don't want to hurt the team by going over that edge. I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to. . . y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
