I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.
Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better.
Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
I'm not some young tough guy trying to prove a point anymore.
Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.
I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.
The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?