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My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.
I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.
You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.
I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'
Design should revolve around what the main purpose of the space is. If you plan to live there, it should reflect your personality.
No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.
I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!
That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5' 7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.
Although I have a busy work schedule, I make sure I spend time with my family and create a balance between my work and family life.
Even looking at my last film, 'Notorious,' you got a perception about B.I.G. and who he was, but there was a different side to him.
I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.
Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.
When you have less risk, you have more fun. You can take risks. It's much easier to take risks when there's less money on the line.
When people come to me with an idea and they say, 'We can do it found footage or traditional,' I always say to do it traditionally.
I've grown to love it, but I'm not like a lot of other people who were always crazy horror fans like Eli Roth or Quentin Tarantino.
We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.
You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.
I'm obsessed with 'Peaky Blinders.' Those characters are awful, and yet you root for them. You love them! Same with 'Breaking Bad.'
The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.
It took a while before I could sit across the table with Mark and not, every three seconds, think, 'I'm talking to Luke Skywalker.'
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.
I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.
I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.
I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.
I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"
I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.
I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it felt like making a sketch.
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.
That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.
It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.
I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.
People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.
Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.
Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.