I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.
Abdullah 'Firimbi' Hassan: You Americans don't smoke anymore. You live long, dull and uninteresting lives.
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
No doubt, a father he is the most respected man in our lives, the most admired person. He is the protector, and the guardian of our lives.
We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.
To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum.
If life is for living , then I live mine for you, if life is for giving, then I give mine to you, if hearts are for beating, then mine beats for you.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
