I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.
In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.
We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.
My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'
Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.
She couldn't tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
One smile heals the planet because it spreads like a virus from one to the next without care for the perfect environment.
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
The last five - six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
