I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
When we do get a little time off, I tend to watch movies, go to dinners, and keep it low-key.
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
Sister Drummond: Now go and wash the blood off your face.
Gruppenfuehrer: [to Head Nazi, as they plummet off the bridge] I've always loved you.
Elwood: You want I should wash the dead bugs off the windshield?
Marie: Well, I'm not going anywhere. This is my hotel. So you can fuck off!
