At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.
Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.
My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.
It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.
Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.
Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles.
I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.
The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting.
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.
down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us
It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.
You don't have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it's the part of humanity.
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.
