I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.
My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.
When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
