“Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous...
“There are moments where I force myself to confront what I’m terrified of, which is how I felt with Welcome To Chippendales. Every single...
“There’s a moment in your youth where you have your big story. Early on, a lot of people make their Boogie Nights. The level of passion...
“I believe in people more than other people do. Everyone was going into this election dire, and I thought, I believe in voters. You don’t have...
“Writing offers a falling away of something; a loss of judgment, a quieting of rumination. It’s hard to make the case for the value of...
“If everybody loves it when they first see a painting, read the book, or watch a movie, there’s something wrong. It means that it went...
“I have always found that through specifics, you find the universal. In recent years, as opposed to observing some kid on the subway or a man in a...
“The most curious thing about the script for The Good Nurse was that empathy felt at the forefront of who Charles Cullen was. There was a...
“The second season of Abbott allowed me to trust myself even more. You hope your art is received in the way you intended it to be. And the first...
“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...
“I’m definitely willing to break and mold the new rules for what they are. I have a lot of identities that are often lost in political...
“Making ‘Bros’ looked and felt like all those romantic comedies I grew up watching. When Harry Met Sally and Annie Hall and Working Girl...
“So much of art-making is figuring out where you end—and where the rest of the world begins. I never really understood why we were making things;...
Last fall, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we turned to the work of photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In the aftermath of that fateful day...
“In our unions, we’re never alone. And through our unions, we can take care of each other the best, and make the most out of that care. It never goes...
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