Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

If you look at pictures of David O. Selznick , he wasn't even attractive. There's no way to portray him in a way that is glamorous, but that's one of the things that's fascinating to me about him.

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do.

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.

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