When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
You can't think about the past anymore.
I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. 'Oh, I'm trying to choose my next project.' This is a job. Sometimes your next job is so you can provide for your family; your kids are 16 and getting ready to go to college.
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.
Asking the director of 'The Lord of the Rings' to read my novel was exactly as terrifying as you'd think. I came this close to not doing it because I was so embarrassed. But he was so gracious about it.
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
I don't think I put too much pressure on myself.
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.
I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.
I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
I think comedy has to come from your authentic point of view.
Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.
When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.
A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Having my own show - it's not something that I think of. It's not.
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
