When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.
Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
You get that air of satisfaction from achievement. It makes you feel good. We are only here for a very short time, and so you're crazy if you don't go out and try to milk it to the greatest extent you can.
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Some of the best sing-along stuff you'll ever hear is Gary Glitter.
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.
I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.
I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.
When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
My workout is always with a trainer because, quite honestly, I don't think most people are motivated enough to do what they need to on their own. You either need a spotter or you need a trainer. You need somebody there to push you to get that extra five.
Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.
I don't avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I'm seeing. And not every trend will work on every client of mine.
My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.
Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'
