Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.
The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in the 'Red Band Society' allows us to see the truth of these real humans' lives.
It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
