Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
It's really important that we have an ecosystem where small innovative entrepreneurs can develop new products and access consumers and have a chance to succeed.
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.
The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
In my view, it is important that our national government exercise leadership to improve the resiliency of the entire nation in the face of continuing extreme weather.
The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.
Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.
We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.
I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.
