It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.
You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.
Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
When making tough decisions it is ok to get it wrong as long as we are working to make it right.
Don't try to find a reason to be kind, just be kind, compassionate, and make a difference.
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.
My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
Teddy: You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth.
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
