Mother always tries to buy things for a reasonable price. I was never allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it's rooted in the Chinese mentality. We are very thrifty.
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.
There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.
It's crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.
I find happiness in the tiniest things.
When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.
I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.
During 'Stranger Things 3,' I shot 'It: Chapter Two,' so I would shoot on my days off, which was super tiring and stressful, but really rewarding at the same time. Basically, I shot 'It: Chapter Two' and 'Stranger Things 3' at the same time.
One of the most beautiful things about Shakespeare's Hamlet is when he stops in the middle of the play to ask, 'To be or not to be?' Then, right at the end, he decides to 'let be.' The first season of 'Stranger Things' was Hopper asking whether 'to be or not to be' and the second is to 'let be.'
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
I lost my tolerance for a lot of things I probably should have tolerated.
I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.
