John Hawkes Quotes
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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I've seen too many sunrises, as far as the walk of shame, staying out too late doing very bad things.
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Radical surgery is never fun.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
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But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
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It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
