You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.
One play don't define a game.
If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.
I have done 200 plus films in other languages.
The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.
I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.
The level of the president's love for our country is immaterial at this juncture.
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
Don't take people for granted.
In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.
Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.
As a director, I start with the visual.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Every game I try to get better and better.
I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.
We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.
Let's put it like this.
People are either funny or they're not, and you can't teach that - but you can teach people to work together to make an idea better.
The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
It's easy for me to cry. I'm just emotionally tuned in to stuff. It probably helps with my songwriting.
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
I don't like to hold grudges, I don't like to talk ill of people.
Time wounds all heels.
