Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.
Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.
Campus. . . brings back so many memories that I would. . . have made.
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.