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" Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene. "
Always
Comfortable
Down
" All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended. "
Sense Of Humor
Know
Humor
" By the time I was a teenager, I weighed 400 pounds. "
Teenager
Time
Weighed
" For me, money is about respect, and that is really important to me. "
Me
Really
Respect
" Here's the deal with 'Bastard.' I loved that show, and for me, it was such a palate cleanser, going from writing urban vernacular and crime to, essentially, iambic pentameter. I loved the mythology of that world based on history, but what it came down to was money. "
Me
History
Money
" I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man. "
Pile
Man
I Am
" I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable. "
I Can
Arrogant
Insufferable
" I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows. "
Write
Should
Political
" I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany. "
Books
Me
Like
" I don't think or write from big ideals. "
Think
Ideals
Write
" If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am. "
Secret
Who
I Am
" I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began. "
Me
Kind
Kid
" I knew from being on 'The Shield,' and having some experience in the financials of all of it, that after seven seasons, the production model changes and reverts back. It becomes a much more expensive show to do, and perhaps the economic feasibility of it somewhat goes away. "
Changes
More
Seasons
" I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am. "
I Am
Know
Me
" I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world. "
Real
Like
Circumstances
" I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being. "
Artist
Challenge
Emotions
" I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude. "
Gratitude
Fear
Problems
" I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive. "
Ride
Me
I Can
" I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore. "
See
Mistakes
Me
" I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine. "
Like
Way
Want
" I'm way too hypersensitive. "
Way
Too
" I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances. "
Determination
World
Maturity
" I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture. "
Been
Riding
Since
" I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things. "
People
Choices
Wife
" I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black. "
Time
Writing
Black
" I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. "
Literature
Writing
Great
" I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't. "
I Wish
Skin
Tougher
" Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion. "
Man
Past
Evil
" Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game. "
Me
Doing
Finding
" My dad was disappointed in me because I was obese, and he was a sports guy. As a result, I spent a lot of time in that basement. I could go down there and escape and be whatever I wanted to be. I had a huge fantasy life. It always involved vengeance. "
Sports
Result
Me
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