I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
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.
So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.
