What are they afraid of? — What are your audience’s pain points and how can you alleviate them? One of the most important questions of all.

Who’s the work for?

What’s it for?

What is the worldview of the audience you’re seeking to reach?

What story will you tell? Is it true?

What change are you seeking to make?

How will it change your status?

How will you reach the early adopters/neophiliacs?

Where’s the network effect that will propel this forward?

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

Each generation needs a 'Spider-Man' to mirror their angst.

The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in filmmaking.

If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.

How peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

Of what use are all the codes in the world if by means of confidential reports if for trifling reasons if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing without a trial

You never know what your next dig is going to find.