Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.
When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.
From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.
For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.
There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
I developed more as an actor in the course of 'Lost' than I had in any period in my career before because they trusted me and allowed me to use the tools that I finally brought out. And quite honestly, it's only been since 'Lost' that I've had any sort of financial stability.
In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.
There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things, but you have to do them in the right order.
If you are planning to save the planet, it will not be Tesla that will do it, since only a finite number of people can afford to buy one, even a $35,000 Model 3.
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
