One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal.
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.
The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.
I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.
People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
