Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.
As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.
Dig just a little bit deeper. Work just a little bit harder. And don't get weary! Remember this is personal! Let's finish what we started, and re-elect President Barack Obama!
We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.
You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'
There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.
When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.
You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you're a little satisfied, and you keep going at it a little more, and you finally finish it. You go, 'Ah,' all your dopamine receptor sites are full. You're satiated.
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.
Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.
People don’t buy products—they buy people. It’s called slavery. I mean networking. It’s called networking.
A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.
3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.
