The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
