As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.
At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.
There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.
Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.
Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.
The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.
I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.
A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.
Daniel Bryan is very good at being endearing.
Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.
I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.
I am not endorsing being thin; I am endorsing being your fittest self.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
