I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.
It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
I've always said I'm less interested in twists as I am about escalation.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
I think I figured out why I don't have more friends. I find dead people more interesting than the living.
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.
It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
