J. J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are brilliant people, so I knew it [Westworld] was going to be amazing.
I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.
I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant. '
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [. . . ] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. ' And they go, 'Ooh, good. ' And that's it.
Part of George R. R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway. ' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.
Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.
There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.
I usually find stuff that I hope no one really knows or cares about. If I'm ripping off something that's already brilliant, what's the point?