Because Quotes
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I really, really liked shooting and doing the scene with Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage at the end of 'Winds of Winter,' when she gives him the Hand of the Queen. Because we shot it very simply. We felt like we had managed to do something that was visual but really was a very intimate scene between two people.
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I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.
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I talk about the NFL Draft on a daily basis because this is the sport I cover - this is the show I do - and I talk about everything that's taking place every single day.
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A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.
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Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.
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I hope people will never stop dressing up as Harry Potter. It feels less to me like something you wear because you think it's a great costume idea and more like something you wear because you really like wearing your Hogwarts robe, and you really only get the one chance per year.
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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
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I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
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Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
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Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.
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You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
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I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.
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I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are.
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It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera, because it captures everything. This is what I have learnt over the years.
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I write because I can't imagine not writing.
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It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president.
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I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.
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People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.
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I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.
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Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.
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I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.
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I feel since people have started noticing me and enjoying my performance, and considering the kind of love I've got in 2017-18, many feel that I have arrived, because there's a belief that I can probably carry a film on my shoulders now.
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I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.
