Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.
This idea of universal access to basic healthcare has to be figured out as a world. No country has figured it out in part because it is driven by ideology.
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.
I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion.
Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.
If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.
