Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it.
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.
You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.
The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.