For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.
You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.
Well, at first I was thinking we could challenge them to a few rounds of Scattergories, but then I realized fighting would be way more emotionally satisfying." -Buffy
Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
