This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.
I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that's what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.
I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
