It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.
What's my favourite food? One you order out.
As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
I believe you win the race by looking forward, not behind.
To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.
Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you're taking other people's opinion, you better go to Tijuana.
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.
It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny.
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.
I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.
'SI' came to me and said, 'We want you to do a story on Russell as the greatest team player,' which I certainly agreed with.
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.
I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day, and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.
