When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system.
John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.
I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.
I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.
What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members' own bosoms any more than necessary) -- such as Pluralism, Plural or Celestial Wedlock, the Principle, the Doctrine, the New Covenant and the Gospel Dispensation of the Meridian of Consummate Time -- the latter was thought to be the least like waving a red flag in front of a bull. But as it was hard to remember and did not make instant or any other kind of sense, it was not much used.
People will tell me, "Oh, my kid watches your show on their iPad, over and over again until they memorize. " And I'm like, "Wow, I was that kid watching other shows. That's the coolest!"
Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.