There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.
I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'
Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.
Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.
I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
I'm from London, and you hardly see stars because of the pollution of light. But in Arizona, there's nothing, so I can see the stars.
I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.
I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.
Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.
One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.
When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
There's generally a couple of months' gap between shows. And I am rather glad it's been that way because I am a workaholic.
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.
I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.
My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.
I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
I know most Americans don't have this luxury, but we are in Los Angeles and are lucky enough to be able to grill outside almost all year long. It's my favorite way of preparation because it's so clean and it gives it such a great flavor. You need very little oil and the protein can be really cleanly prepared and perfectly cooked.
It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.
But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
Why am I here? Yes, to win titles, because then I will feel happy for the people. But the process is the reason why.
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.
