There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
If something's important to you, you make time for it.
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I c...
By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
Most stories in 'True Blood' take place over a short amount of time. I think the entire three seasons of the show have only spanned a month and a half of those characters' lives.
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.
Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.
When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it.
Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.
I get called 'controversial' all the time.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.
