Making Quotes
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My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.
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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
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Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.
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The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.
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Scientists are typically good at making scientific progress, but not particularly good at articulating what the progress consists of.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
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I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this, I've trained myself to do the opposite of what's human nature, and that is to recoil from things I don't like.
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Your thoughts are making you.
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I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
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Don’t turn decision making over to an army of consultants.
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We released 'The Interview' through a variety of platforms, and we continue to look for other distribution options. Throughout this whole process, we never stopped - not for a single moment - trying to secure a broad release. Our studio takes great pride in continuing to grow the release of this movie and making it a success.
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My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
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The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.
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By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.
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If you're good at the art and you wanna make money, then it's fine. But if you're just doing it because you know you're gonna make money, then I don't know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things.
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My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.
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I enjoy making the decisions.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.
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A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything
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I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
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Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
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I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.
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The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.
