I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.
I just try to remember my lines most of the time.
When you're a director, you have great respect for directors. I am really pretty loyal to any director that I am working for and I want to help them realize whatever story and mood and tone that they're trying to realize. As an actor, you really just are a cog - you are an important cog, but you are just a piece of the machine.
But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
Through. . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship. . . .
When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!
Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on; it's not quite the same as cyber-warfare. They are regarded as related. The Chinese are trying to steal an economic march on the West, which is a consequence of the fact that we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China in the 1990s.
I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.
It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.
Focus on what you want to do, don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. You gotta take risks at times
I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com. . . it just completely skeeves me out. No!
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
I definitely try and wash my face twice a day, and I never go to bed with my makeup on. I mostly just wash my face and try to not touch my face because that's when you get pimples.
I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.
Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity
I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.
