“When you’re young, you come to destroy the generation above. I’m used to being the destroyer, and now I’m here to be destroyed. What I do notice...
“When you’re a writer, you live in dreamtime. It’s kind of like a kite. You begin with your own story, and the higher it goes, it starts to take off...
“In musical collaboration, you can kind of get outside of yourself. Being in a band, performing— in all those things, you have to collaborate and...
“Entertainment as a business does not work unless we have a viable career path for writers and actors. It can’t just be a gig economy where...
“It makes me emotional—how rich my life is with such amazing people. I’m so grateful to have met Paul and Cooper. Like, look at this thing we...
“In making Oppenheimer, we were trying to find the tone of the movie— and I wanted to do that by finding the emotional core of the music. I always...
“The humanitarian crisis on the Texas-Mexico border is going to be a political crisis for Democrats. If we cannot fix this, I guarantee you we will...
“The question coming out of this strike is, how do we turn this moment into a movement? This is a new generation. There is a new wave in Hollywood...
“We really make photographs; we don’t take them. I was trying to get away from the ‘caught moment,’ because Robert Frank and those photographers...
“Writing is like shaping some clay. It’s the act of shaping it that’s sort of fascinating. You don’t think, is this going to be just...
“2016 was a story of political media completely missing the country. That has been my driver of the reason to do bottom-up reporting. By the time I...
“The scary thing is—when you change, you’re ripping out a whole part of yourself, and you don’t know what goes in there. You’ve got to start filling...
“Writing forever, I would write screenplays and realize they were about other movies. I’d get inspired and write these cool sequences, but the...
“America is beautiful because it’s full of all kinds of people. In Taste the Nation, I hope that I give as balanced a picture of these stories...
“Life goes on, and you have to be grateful that it all existed. That you were able to make your dreams real. I’ll always be fortunate.” -Carol...
“After the poem has passed out of the hands of the one who’s written it down, and after that person may have departed from time and space and...
“Over the past few months, many people have come up to me and told me that our movie changed their life, and they start crying. That’s the most...
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