Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!
I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.
I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.
The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.
I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.
North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.
Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen.
Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.
Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in time that encapsulates whatever was happening in that moment.
If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.
