If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.
For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I'm not very good at maths.
Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.
The good Lord was the one who provided everything for me.
Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.
It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope Cruz... but I'm a female of the species. I have my hang-ups and all of that.
We represent the people's money, and we have to be good stewards of that.
There's good random, and there's bad random. There's good silly and there's bad silly, and you've gotta know the difference.
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
Good words will not give me back my children.
I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people.
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.
Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.
I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.
