Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
I'm not someone who wakes up at 6 A.M. to go to the gym.
For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.
The only person who knows what's in my wallet is my wife.
If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.
We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.
Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.
I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.
