I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.
That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head
There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.