I tried so hard to fit in different places and people,but finally decided to try fitting in me. It was a perfect fit.
I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything.
It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.
It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who doesn't know everything about skating.
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.
I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.
Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.
