When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.
Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.
When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
The media's job is to serve as society's referee, throwing down truth flags when uninformed bigots are shouting their opinions into the wind.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
Once you get into your thirties, you stop giving a fuck what people think about your opinions. You're more confident.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.
The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
