Quotes About Insight

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.

I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

History is just fascinating. I love it.

By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

Knowing what everyone is doing, you can play faster.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I like to give people information; that's to a fault.

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

It was actually having a son made me think about feminism.