I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.
The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.
The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.
What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.
I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.
Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
