Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.
No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.
I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.
If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
