I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
If I really buckle down, I think one day I could be a very good actress.
I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.
There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.
The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.
I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
