I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.
Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.
You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.
It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. . . . The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.
If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.
I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.
All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.
These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.
Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.
Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.