Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.
Balance has never been my strong suit.
You know, search has never been a strong suit of Facebook.
Patience has never been my strong suit.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.
You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.
I went to L.A., and I was on two different studio movies at Fox and Sony, but they were never made in the end. When the second one wasn't happening, I ended up doing an episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the BBC, and went on a roots trip from England to Kenya, India, and pre-partition India in Pakistan, where my family originally came from.
I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.
I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
When I was younger, all of my family's money went into racing. We were never a stylish family. We never went shopping, because all the money went into buying tires and fuel and all of that.
