Quotes About Author

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices.

I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.