The best role is something that's challenging. Fun is great, but when it's challenging, you get to overcome barriers, and when you see the finished product, it's very rewarding.
When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets.
Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
Facebook, Twitter and Google have all opened offices in Brazil, recognizing the importance of localizing their products and customer service efforts.
We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.
Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.
Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.
There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.
After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.
