What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.
If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.
I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
I want to show America who I am and inspire young kids.
I wanted to earn a living wage and to see something nice about me in the 'New York Times.' I wanted my mother to be proud. I wanted all the things you want and also feel silly for wanting. I wanted readers to say they'd enjoyed something of mine - to see my photo in magazines where I'd seen photos of other writers.
I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.
If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.
When people are recording, and they're like, 'I want to get the drum sound of the Beatles,' I hate that.
When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do I want to work hard at doing something musical?' Acting won out, but I do really enjoy those moments where I get to just belt something out.
I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
I said if you want me to go back to Afghanistan and work, I'm happy to do that. If you think accepting my resignation is best for the cause and for the nation, then I have no complaint with that.
I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.
I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.
I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.
I'm a big fan of glamour. It's something I don't think there's enough of in Hollywood anymore. I enjoy putting on a sexy dress and heels. I want to work it.
I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.
In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.
If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
