The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human.
I think, unfortunately, everything is becoming about comfort, you know? A comfortable way to tell a story. The comfortable way, so that the audience will never be lost. A comfortable way to produce a film with green screens or without a lot of physical effort or losing control because of the weather or physical locations.
I have tremendous respect for Christopher Darden, and I recognize him as an individual of integrity, who did his job to the best of his ability, and I want to tell him thank you. Thank you for enduring hatred from his own community, for being ostracized and called an Uncle Tom and a sellout.
When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed.
If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.
It's inspiring being surrounded by people who do more than you. It makes you want to do better. You're in the position to learn from the best.
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.
It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
You dirty, double-crossing rat.
Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
You want to do what you love, but stuff overshadows it, so it makes it a little harder for people to take me seriously.
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
It's always fun when you get to go somewhere new and you get to meet new people and get new experiences.
One thing I could tell you is that I'm all over the place.
If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.
Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.
The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.
If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
