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I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.
The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.
Be it a movie premiere or an event, I personally prefer to wear a lot of saree. For me, they are very comfortable; I can carry them off.
There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.
Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.
My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'
Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.
Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.
My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.
Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.
I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.
We all live in some kind of home, so the idea that our home could be invested with a supernatural entity is kind of frightening, I think.
You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'
I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."
The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.
As to whether Luke is the 'Last Jedi,' they say in 'The Force Awakens' he's going to find the last Jedi temple and Luke is the last Jedi.
There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.
You have to fall in love with the production, and then there's a certain mind-set that you develop where it does stay fresh in your mind.
I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.
I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.
To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.
I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.
My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.
Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No.
The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.
I'm sure I will reach a position in my life where people will understand it's not about being Mrs. Shah Rukh Khan but about the work I do.
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.
We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.
My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.
The effects that interest me are not the guy flying through the sky, but creating reality - reality that you otherwise can't go and shoot.
My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.
I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.
News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.
I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.
You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.
The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.
So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.
When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.
Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension.
One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.
You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.