A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent. . . This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.
Sleep your way to the top.
I love insects. They are amazing.
I never write with an actor in mind - never.
Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.
Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?
Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance.
Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery.