Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.