The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.
One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny. "
When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
Do you guys think its worse to wear a fedora or kill 15 people?
A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!
I have wrinkles here, which are very evident. And I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned. '
We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.
I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.
We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up. ' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.
The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.
My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.
So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around.
I've always had problems with guys!
A lot of times you'll do a movie, and you'll be working with adults with families and kids and stuff. There's a level - you guys aren't going to be hanging out every second, you know?
I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.
You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there. ' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.