We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.