Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.
I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.
Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.
I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.
The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.
Many people are under the delusion that I'm just a special-effects man, but I've worn many different hats in my day. On every film I've been involved in, I worked with the writer and producer. We really formulated those scripts. We tried to make films that were logical but still had the fantasy feel of it. I enjoy Aardman Animation's films with Wallace and Gromit, but they're obvious puppet films, whereas we tried to disguise it and make our effects characters in the films rather than obvious puppets.
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.
Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.
Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it
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