We live in a time of mediocre leadership—political and intellectual.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
It's very easy to fall into a rut where you're just making things that you don't believe in for other people.
