Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.
Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.
Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.
In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.
I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.
I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.
I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.
I'm industrious. Ambitious. I'm like the gay Mitt Romney... That's a terrible thing to say.
The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.
When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
Our effects were primitive. Our stars were a black cloth with holes in it and light behind.
Love grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.
In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.
Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.
Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.
Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.
I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture.
Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.
I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.
Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.
If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.
Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.
I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
Rosario Dawson is such a resourceful, intelligent actress that you can do anything with her.
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.
I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.