If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.
I dyed my hair for photo tests. . . I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.
The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.
We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons