If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.
Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.
The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.
Our phones have created what I like to call SADD - Social Attention Deficit Disorder.
It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.
I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.
Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic, and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?'
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.
I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.
I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I go to plays.
