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I have a lot of nightmares.
I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
If you ever catch a great boss, it's just such a rare thing, and it's amazing.
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.
A lot of things just aren't true any more.
It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult.
I took some time out for life.
That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.
Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week.
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.
When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.
I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.
Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.
I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.
I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.
I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense
I'm big on research.
Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.