The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.
If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell. '
Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
I wanna keep being productive and creative.
Disneyland is Vegas for children.
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
There are certain times in a concert when I'll call an audible because I feel like God is calling me to play a different song. But truthfully, I feel called to play for the church whether it's song being played on Christian radio or it's concerts I'm doing primarily in churches.