You Quotes
-
I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.
-
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
-
Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
-
There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.
-
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
-
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
-
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
-
Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
-
A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.
-
When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
-
Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
-
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
-
Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.
-
I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
-
On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
-
The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
-
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
-
There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.
-
Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
-
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
-
In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.
-
Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
-
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
-
The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
