We always hope we can make a movie that will beat America.
You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.
Music and opera are a big part of my life.
They say breast milk helps just about everything - I'm surprised you can't run a car on it.
I have been blessed to be able to out walk the rest.
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.
I got it done in the first 100 days, that's even nice. You think that's easy?
The stock market seems to be trading very coincident with the price action in oil.
Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
I've found that instability from growth comes in waves.
All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.
The smoke of my own house is better than another man's fire.
The barrel can only yield the wine that's in it.
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
Alas for the son whose father went to heaven.
I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.
When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.
There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room.
I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.
From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
