Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.
I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music.
I don't feel that I'm making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch movie on an iPhone, I'm not going to stop them, especially if they're paying for it, but I don't recommend it. I think it's dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they're not visible. I'm trying to make an epic.
I'm just making fun music so you can let your guard down and enjoy it, don't worry about what's cool and what's not.
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.
Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you made more.
America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.
So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
I'm very involved on a lot of levels in making of this album," "I wrote on 11 of the 12 tracks which is, creatively, really important to me. I want to be singing my music passionately and when I'm writing from a place where God has been teaching me something new-when I write from that place-it comes across when I'm singing. That's vital to the message and the reality of God that I want to impart with my music.
Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas. '
I think it's really important to not talk about how you're going to release something until you've finished it. People are like, "What are we going to make? What are we going to do with it?" and it's just like, "I don't know, we're just making music. Then we'll talk. " You can't always write something you're happy with; you can't force it.
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U. S. , France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.
Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.