It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.
You can keep a person locked up too long.
Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn't a radical home. You wouldn't find these in a Black Panther house. There's still a strong allegiance to Christianity.
The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'
You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know.
Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.
You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.
At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.
If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.
Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.
Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.
When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.
If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop.
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.
I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.
The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.
It's very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you've done.
