I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.
My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.
I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
[last lines] Trooper: You're quite an individual Kit. Kit Carruthers: Think they'd take that into consideration
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.
I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
