The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.
We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts. " He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.