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What you end up doing is you try to match your guy's strength against a place they can be successful. They're doing the same thing against us. Sometimes they have the edge, sometimes you have the edge. ”
I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. ”
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. ”
You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe. ”
There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it's really fun to bring that into the characters... and play with it. ”
I like to push my body to just extremity to get past the mental toughness barriers. So fighting at 145, that would be great. If Kenny Florian can do it, I can do it. ”
You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out. ”
If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven't taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error. ”
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot. ”
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible. ”