Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them. You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.
Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.
The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.
Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.
It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will be great. You then write 11 things, of which two of them will be great. Then you write 12 things, of which four of them will be great. Then you writ...
It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into mon...
