Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.
I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money are evil, and artists who are poor are virtuous.
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
The difference between what people perceive and what's reality is that, like, I'm not actually shy. I'm just observant. I care a lot.
I am very observant of people's character.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness.
I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.
My stuff is observational, what people do with their lives from the angle of a man that canβt pull it off. So if I talk about having a family, it would be through the medium of a man who is in no fit state to be given a child to look after.
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they're shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.
People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.
