To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.
You only feel as good as your last sketch.
The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.
We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.
Ever since I was a little teen, I was told by my great-grandma that you've got to always have a good moisturizer. I use cocoa butter, and I use it for all things needing moisture - face, hair, throw it on those legs at the beach, get them all shiny. Cocoa butter is such a great product.
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.
I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it.
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.
With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
I guess we all have that 'Dig Me' space, where we have some of our things displayed. Mine's a little bit more off the beaten path. You're not going to see it as soon as you walk into my house, but it does exist.
After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.
You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
The pope dies, you get another pope.
You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.
