Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.
Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.
Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.
One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'
I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
I absolutely do not think that I have even a vague recollection of what normal life is like.
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.
Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.
I collect records pretty assiduously, so I've got, like, a massive record collection. I still DJ.
I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.
When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.
