We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.
'Funny' is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I'll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue.
When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.
I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.
As far as putting stuff on social media, I think Instagram is really cool because I like the visual aspect. You're taking pictures, and you can put a filter on them, and it's super creative.
Once you become a celebrity, you are no longer a person, but an archetype.
Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?
The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.
You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.
I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.
I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.
I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.
There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
They're a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube.
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
'Quantum of Solace' was a bit of a different circumstance than a lot of my other films because you're stepping into a franchise, and also in that particular film, we're dealing with a script from the writer's strike, which was difficult to handle because there was never time to really develop a finished script.
