We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
I use bath gloves in the shower every day. People often comment on my skin and I just tell them that I use bath gloves.
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.
I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.
Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.
PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
The U.S. military cannot fight Iraq's war for them.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
