Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.
If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.
The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.
Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.
Needing nothing attracts everything.
A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
Don’t be sad by what you see It’s true life has it’s miseries But one thing’s always worked for me Worry ends when faith begins.
I tell a story, and therefore I exist.
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.
You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.
The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.
In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.
Many people are under the delusion that I'm just a special-effects man, but I've worn many different hats in my day. On every film I've been involved in, I worked with the writer and producer. We really formulated those scripts. We tried to make films that were logical but still had the fantasy feel of it. I enjoy Aardman Animation's films with Wallace and Gromit, but they're obvious puppet films, whereas we tried to disguise it and make our effects characters in the films rather than obvious puppets.
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.
Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life
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