One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.
Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.
I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!
Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!
What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!
People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!
How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.
When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.
And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.
I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.
Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily.-RVM
Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures—our Moment, our Day, our Life.-RVM
