If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the kind of adult you wanted. There's almost this kind of competitive enterprise. That picture is the picture I think people often imply when they use the word "parenting".
Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.
Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.
We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.
I creep over to my chair and sit there with my notebook and my thermos of coffee. It's my best time for thinking, because I haven't started thinking about anything else yet, and the thoughts can kind of go in and out of my head.
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you. '
Here, drink your liqueur," Henry said, tossing back her drink. "I carry it with me everywhere because it's the only kind of drink that Leo doesn't like, so there's a chance I'll still have some tomorrow.
For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift.
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.
I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.
I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
I've always gone for a kind of perfection.
I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.
I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.
I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.
