Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.
Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.
Not all the truths are told, dreams are shattered, words are unspoken, memories are haunting but the imagination is still fighting to settle down.
That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
