Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.
I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.
There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me.
The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But it was actually happening.
Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.
It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator.
