Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.
Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
Old men are dangerous; it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
If you're a sociopath, you don't get emotional cues.
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter.
