I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.
I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.
