My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.
In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.
I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have pa...
Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad wa...
So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'
John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.
If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.
If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.
The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.
I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.
I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
