Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me.
My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
The men and women that I've worked with on the police force are some of the most honest, heroic, and pure human beings I've ever met.
There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.
There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite 'milkmaid' braid.
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around.
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
