Marco: I could never figure out what that phrase meant, "more or less."
When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.
Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.
I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.
The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.
Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
Lei li guardò per un lungo momento senza parlare, poi disse: "Tornate indietro". Le rosse figure esitarono. Lei fece un passo avanti e sbottò: "Oppure restate".
You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.
And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?
You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.