An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Always look up to the better. They tell you where to go but never look down upon inferior because you know, you were once there.
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.
One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.
I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.
