I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. I write a letter every now and then, you know, pick out somebody and drop them a line, because I always like receiving letters.
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.
If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.
When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.
I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.
When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.
You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.
I interned at 'Hamptons' magazine. I was 12. I walked around with a pad and was like, 'What do you guys want for lunch?' to all the people who worked there.
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.
When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!
When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.
The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.
In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
