Am Boden zerstört / Devastated Annahme / Acceptance Deshalb / Therefore Erwartung / Expectation Gewinnen / Winning Gibt / Gives Rede / Speech Schreiben / Writing Sie / You Sieg / Win Verletzt / Hurt
When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Better to take smart risks and focus on winning because, if you don't, your competition will!
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.
You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.
We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.
When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.
