Once you let someone stop you from achieving your goals, you've official lost confidence in yourself.
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.
I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.
When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.
When you accidentally assert power over someone or something, one of two things will happen: 1) you will be respected; or 2) you will be hated
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
You can choose to be someone's Angel or choose to be a Troll, either way you will have to deal with the consequences of your actions, good or bad.
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.
No, never regret destroying something written. Some things are best left hidden, especially if they can seriously hurt someone if they are found.
You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
