I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don't have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.
I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.
There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
Curt Henderson: Someone wants me. Someone roaming the streets, wants ME... Will you turn the corner?
Billy: I don't want to do your stupid fucking audition! You only want me to do it for your own benefit!
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.
The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.
A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.
If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.
I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.
My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.
If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
