“Acting in the theatre is fun, acting in film is work.”
“Still at the end of every hard earned day people find…
“I like young actors because they’re so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.”
“I respond to movies that get in your face, that have the ability to be provocative or challenge you, that take some risks.”
I steal from every movie ever made.
A director`s job is to make something happen and it doesn`t happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don`t bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn`t be doing it.
“You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I’m there now.”
“I had a great ’70s. I survived it, and that’s always good news.”
“I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!”
A cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.
St. Peter asked, ‘Have you ever done anything of particular merit?’
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
“Before you judge me, try hard to love me, Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my childhood?”
Jonathan Carroll’s Blog has humorous, insightful, entertaning posts and are worth the 5 minutes daily to read and ponder.
“Young people want you to be real with them.”
His very first tweet reads, quote, “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial.
Somebody help me.”
“Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, ‘Why are they doing that for free?’ We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.”
There is no “i” in team but there is in win.
Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better. This is named one of the top 10 presentations at the Ted Conference (Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world).
“In life you must be able to discern between who and what is genuine and artificial. I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I realize that you can’t please everybody all of the time and that sometimes you have to just go for what you know.”
Success is a brick at a time.
“Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.”
