One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals.
From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.
I have a fairly hefty resume because I'm pretty aggressive about doing things that I think I need to do.
We can inform decisions when we look at data points on retention rates with your first hundred users, when we look at things like survey responses from your first hundred users.
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
Know not to revere human things too much.
Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.
One of the things that is most difficult for a manager is reversing bad results and keeping going.
Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say things like the film doesn't cater to a certain audience, it leaves people wondering if they should watch it.
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
