Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy of the city.
It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.
If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
I'm not a horror guy, it's not my thing, but I respect it a lot. I know how hard it is to make, especially to make good.
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.
It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.
Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.
A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.
After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.
