L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Never judge anyone as they have their own situation and different dimensions of looking at things and situations which you may not understand . . so Observe.
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works.
I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.
So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.
I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.
What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.
There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.