What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.
My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!
Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.
Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'
Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.
Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.
The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
