What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.
My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.
There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
No one can remember more than three points.
I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you're born rich, people just associate you with what you've been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.
There are so many more people in Tokyo than in New York, but it's pristine. It's so organized, and yet the address system is in complete chaos.
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.
I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It's on a home video. He said, 'That kid would rather lead no one than follow anyone.' I had dogs following me in the neighborhood. I had neighborhood kids coming over.
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.
I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.
My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.
