I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.
Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.
The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on their glasses, and it's just fun.
I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.
Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.
If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
