That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.
Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.