It's great to create a story and then to submit it to your editor and see what her reaction is to it. It's great to have your editor tell what her su….
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy..
The important thing is to keep trying.
What is power without control?.
I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation..
I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy..
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself..
I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will.
Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate of fame, you have to have personality ….
I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the ly….
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank..
Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best o….
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song..
In Cannes, I try to find somebody's apartment that I can cook at. I always go shopping in the marche and try to make a meal and set up a whole space ….
Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage..
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a par….
If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?.
You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did..
There’s a right time for everything. Not all will come to you, because there’s a solid plan. You just have to have faith, you have to believe that th….
I never learned to read music..
Nothing is 'just' anything with you.