Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone's life.
If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.
It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.
It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
I've always wanted to push someone who's not really known but has mad talent. I don't know if I'm going to do a publishing company or a record label, but I'm interested in pushing artists in any sense.
Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.
What's the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids' heads? Taking someone else's girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesn't seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.
I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.
