But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
It's kind of fun when it's you versus them.
The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?
They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old.
Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.
I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side.
You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.
If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.
I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.
I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.
The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.
You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.
You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.
