People Quotes
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I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
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In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know at all - and let people discover them through the course of the film.
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These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
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Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.
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I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.
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We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.
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I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed.
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Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
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I feel like it's very important to connect with the people who are passionate about what I'm doing.
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Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.
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I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
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People who have grit – they hate doing hard work. They hate it as much as we do. But, the thing is, they find a way to do it.
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Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
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We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.
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God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed – out skull for a spittoon.
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What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
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I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.
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People who don't think shouldn't talk.
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Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.
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When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
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I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.
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The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.
