I just did a film in which I had to be a dancer and I was able to do all kinds of extraordinary things. A lot of people turn 50 and talk about what they're not going to do anymore. I embarked on something that I'd wanted to do when I was 5.
Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie.
What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
Marriage is absolutely not something I'm scared of, but it isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all.
People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.
There is something endearing about the weatherman.
