David Zucker wrote some of the funniest movies in Hollywood history: Airplane, Naked Gun, and Scary Movie 3. He's probably the world’s top spoof comedy writer, and he shared all his tricks in our interview. Highlights below:. 1. Let the lines do the work: Zucker doesn’t want

RT @sammesterton: David is the best talk show host currently. Incredible guests.

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Spent the week in London filming a documentary about why we don’t build beautiful things like we used to.

Take telephone booths, too. The one on the right is ugly, while the one on the left is so beautiful that the city of London has decided to keep them on the street even though they don’t work anymore.

English bookstores have much more fun with special cover designs than American ones. This is at Waterstones in London.

Another example of how depth improves design: two mailboxes; same color; one flat, one not; and they’re fairly similar even if the one right has more character and is so much nicer to look at. You know… it doesn’t take a Herculean lift to make the world much more beautiful.

Most modern architecture is an eyesore, but this building in London is an exception. Instead of flatness and monotony, it offers rhythm: layered setbacks, a range of terraces, and trees that’ll soften its edges as they grow throughout the seasons. New buildings don’t need to be

You can save yourself a lot of headache by taking note of things that mean their opposite: luxury apartments are rarely luxurious, exclusive deals are rarely exclusive, and the guy at the market who keeps yelling “my friend, my friend” is most definitely not your friend.

RT @lulumeservey: One of my favorites is the word “disaster”. Dis + aster. The destruction of a star.

RT @GuyLambertUK: The more scripts I read, the more I notice this. It’s called a writer’s voice for a good reason.

Travel makes you like a child again. It shows you how routine has a way of blinding you, and most of the time you aren’t actually seeing the world around you, you’re just sleepwalking through it. The real art, of course, is learning how to keep your eyes fresh once you’ve.

RT @monicadsong: "to think like that you have to live like that".

If I could bring one restaurant chain to America, it’d be Flat Iron in London: solid steaks, fairly affordable, simple menu, insanely quick, comfy enough decor, nice enough for a work lunch but casual enough to eat with friends. Asked the waitress about the business and she

We resonate with writers whose words make us feel like we're swimming inside their minds, so the process of writing things people resonate with begins with getting in touch with the raw content of your own mind: your actual thoughts and feelings, not the performance you put on.

RT @lichthauch: father pulls son aside says listen boy the world will lie to you about everything but i won't lie to you about this one thi….

People will ask me: "What have you learned since becoming a Christian?" . My answer's still a bit messy but I'll tell you this: Before I felt the love of Christ, I had no concept for the idea that you could stumble and fall, stumble and fall, and then stumble and fall some.

Sometimes I'll read somebody's writing and think to myself "wow, I'd pay an infinite amount of money to be able to write like that" only to realize that to write like that you have to think like that, and to think like that you have to live like that.

I forget how loud cars until I try to hop on a call in a major city. One minute, it’s a siren. The next, a honk. The next, some motorcyclist who’s revving his engine. I’ve seen so many studies that show how much loud noises hurt the mind, and the noise of cars is an invisible.