The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.
The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.
I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.
I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
You're taking big risks doing comedy, because ultimately, you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, you look like an idiot. You have to be prepared to look like an idiot, so you need to have confidence in the man at the helm of it all. You have to take a massive leap of faith and be daring and bold with your choices. It always makes for better work I think.
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians. . . is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.
If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else, you know half of your visit is gone already. So if you have an automated system that has most of that and, and in some cases I actually have patients complete questionnaires before they come in, so I'd gotten most of the information I need to ask about, already recorded, instead of having 9 minutes I can take 3 minutes to review all this information.