It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code- "It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.
I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.
The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
