I wanted to create a small town underwater where the characters were more like us than like fish. They have fire. They take walks. They drive. They have pets and holidays.
More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant.
The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.
It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.
I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.
The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.
I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.
I think the unemployment rate for actors is pretty much the same in Sydney, London and New York. In all three cities, there are more actors than there are jobs. But I do think that there are far more acting opportunities in London and New York than in Sydney, where there are approximately seven actors that you see over and over again in every play.
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
Like or loathe Donald J. Trump, you have to give him this: He's done more to shine a spotlight on the loopholes and fundamental unfairness of the tax code than any other American president.
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.
