Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Lots of people talk to animals.. Not very many listen, though.. That's the problem.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

I am proud of being small.

Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

People don't usually compliment your character.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

It's hard to come back and play when you've gone through surgery.

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.

If a little dreaming is dangerous the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more to dream all the time.

The first year I lived in New York, I tried a different burger every week to find my favorite burger in New York.

You should be comfortable eating by yourself or in public.

I don’t know what I’d do without you, I don’t know where I’d be, you’re not just another boy, your everything to me.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.