When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.

We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

Is there any force like faith?

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.