Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
A lot of times we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed and they just want you there opening weekend before everybody finds out it's not so good.
When I go to movies and I love the movie it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.
I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
No matter how dark things may get in a story I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
But yeah I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought you have a receptacle to go home and say 'Oh this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way and I love that time.
Well I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books what's the purpose of reading and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.
Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things like the old guys in 'The Muppets' just throwing out comments all the time whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.