Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?
The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.
Academy Awards don't really solve anything.
'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.
The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil 'Love' show.
I'm a dramatist.
I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.
I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.
TV is where a writer can write his novel.
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
I really like Rosamund Pike very much.
'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.
