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Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."
Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?
She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.
People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.
Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.
It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.
The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.
When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.
It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.
She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.
The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.
My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.
I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.
And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.
I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.
When it comes to being confused about what to do about life, that's been me and will always be me.
In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.
You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.
The next wave of medical advances will be when we come to recognize the body as an energetic system.
I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials.
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.
Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.
People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.