Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.
Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them.
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness.
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000.
Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.
There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.
The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.
I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.
The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it
I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.
I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.
Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.
I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
I like filming in the UK - I'll sleep in my own bed, which I'm really happy about.
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.
I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.
It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.
If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it.
I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.
I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.
There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.
Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.
In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.
Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?
I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.