Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.
If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in it.You stop looking at the seams and they start inhabiting the same space and start interacting with each .
People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.
I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.
It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.
My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.
I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.
This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make something better. The creative energy in this country, and what people are coming up with is very hopeful.
There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people.
Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
