This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.
The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.
Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.
I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
'Doctor Who' is pretty dark, I think. Generally it's dark; it's always been dark.
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish.
The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
