John Densmore Quotes
Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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(On his Catholic faith): 'Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life.'
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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
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I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
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Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!
