If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.
If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
People always said, "I can't believe you made a movie that had no script. " Yeah, but here's the thing, if you've got actors who are used to that, and that's what they like to do, they're all good improvisers and they're all people that feel comfortable doing that, then you know, it's not that big of a deal. It's what you do.
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
With someone like Barack Obama, I think the whole America, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change, and change takes a long time because there are big issues that can't be changed overnight. But the one thing that will change dramatically is how we're viewed around the world. Once Obama is in there, the world will view Americans in an entirely different light. And that, to me, is a good thing.
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
There were actually times where I thought, 'Do people even remember us? Are people gonna be interested in hearing what we put out next?'And, you know, there were times I felt like, 'Are there going to be people out there waiting for this record?'. So we kind of live in a bubble, in a sense. We're very closed off to that whole world of thinking about those kinds of things.
I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!