I think I've seen the fastest miler ever. His name is Morceli.
I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.
The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.
I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
You're taking big risks doing comedy, because ultimately, you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, you look like an idiot. You have to be prepared to look like an idiot, so you need to have confidence in the man at the helm of it all. You have to take a massive leap of faith and be daring and bold with your choices. It always makes for better work I think.
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.
You can support the troops but not the president.