My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.
