In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along.
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.