What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.
I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.
I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out of that because I can finish the song really quickly. I can use whatever momentum I have. I've got to put it down, develop it, and get it as far [as I can], because the excitement of the moment of when you get that idea - you want to try and hold it and build on it and really gain strength from it. Being in the studio and writing songs like that is really the best way.
I've always enjoyed taking pre-existing sound, songs I like, songs I want to share, and manipulating them and trying to do my own version. So just knowing there's that potential for that thing out there that I haven't discovered yet, really gets me motivated every day.
Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do with beliefs. When I studied the side of the rationalists and the skeptics, and the side of the believers and so-called psychics, I found out that both of them, no matter what they claim to do, behave in a very similar way. They only accepted what confirmed their previous positions, and tended to reject everything that put them at risk.
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.
Writing is the easiest thing in the world. . . . Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.
There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.
Sighing, she gave a brief nod. “I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didn’t kill me. It was awful. ” “You’re welcome,” I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. “I’ll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time. ” (Max II to Max)
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.
To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.
So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.
A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.
Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.