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You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.
I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.
I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.
Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.
I do love Christmas, although my wife puts me to shame. She is a huge Christmas fan, so we do love us some Christmas in our house.
I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.
If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.
A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.
Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.
I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.
I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.
I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.
Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.
For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.
I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'
The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
You only have but so much time to make an impact or people will forget you. My goal always is to make the biggest impact possible.
I loved 'BattleDome.' It was the first thing I ever auditioned for, and I was so crazy in the audition that I knew I had the part.
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.
There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.
Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.
Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it.
I can't root for the Lakers. I grew up in northern California, so I spent many of my young adult years rooting against the Lakers.
It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.
I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.
I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.
I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.
Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.
Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.
Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.