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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
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If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
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You give the money where you want it.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
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There's no possible way you can get what you want.
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
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Your life is the same wherever you go.
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Race is still real and you got to recognize it.
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.
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You just have to play the character.
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Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
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In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
