William Bernbach Quotes
Those who are going to be in business tomorrow are those who understand that the future, as always, belongs to the brave.
Quotes to Explore
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
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Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
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They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
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I'm glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn't done that, I'd still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me.
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Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
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Those who are going to be in business tomorrow are those who understand that the future, as always, belongs to the brave.
