Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.
I love to consume information of all kinds, and I think that also hopefully helps with my broadcasting, that I always try to bring up a fact that maybe will connect to a person who's not a big fan, or maybe a pop culture reference.
I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.
There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.
There are no answers, only cross references.
Expand your references, and you'll immediately expand your life.
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting.
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.
References drive the industry.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.
Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.
Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.
The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.
I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.
There's a lot of 'Game of Thrones' stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don't know if I've seen a Lego 'Game of Thrones' yet, but there must be one. And there's an animated thing that's been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it's great.
My character in 'Fanaah' has a cool and crazy look at the same time. I'm very particular about my accessories and clothes and love discussing and working on the look with the team. We all work on it together and gather loads of references.
