The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.
The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.
I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
