I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.
Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.
The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.
My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.
It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.