And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.
I'm not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. That's that.
Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!
I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.
Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.
I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.