I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.
My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.
I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.
I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.
