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I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world. ”
There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture. ”
I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. ”
It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition. ”
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. ”
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. ”
With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings. ”
Having to re-articulate your values and, most importantly, your rights, is something that can be quite tiring and frustrating. However, I am meticulous and tenacious and will continue to do so, because I believe it's what's right. I believe it's what I should be doing. ”
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. ”
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. ”