Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.
I was a big kid my whole life. I grew up among big people. My brother was a big kid. I didn't really feel like a big kid. Except for the teachers, who pretty much didn't want me to squish any of the other kids.
With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.
You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can't squish it; you can't change its dimensions so easily.
Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish them into a box and, eventually, throws the box out.
Agent Kay: [goes to squish a cockroach, but hesitates]
Cockroach: Damn decent of you.
[scuttles away]
Agent Kay: [beat] Don't mention it...
Hound: Optimus, what are our orders on these humans? Can I squish the bald guy?
Optimus Prime: They're in trouble...
Crosshairs: Nah! This isn't our fight! I'm done being an underdog, underdogs suck! I say they get what they deserve!
Hopper: Where do you get the gall to do this to me?
Flik: You were... you were gonna squish the queen.
[all the ants gasp]
Dot: It's true.
Hopper: I hate it when someone gives away the ending.
