Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.
love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.
To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. . . . It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.
Besides, the only thing you can control in life is your wardrobe. Cars break down when you least expect it. Boats eat money and gas. Your house, your mate, your friends, your family, even your career, are beyond your control. However, you're in total command of what you put on your back each morning.
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.
Your choice of programming model also is your choice of programming model, so to speak.
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.