Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.
You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'
Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.
I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.
I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.
