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Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.
While Daddy liked to stick to the rules, Mummy liked to bend them.
I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.
My mom always used to say, "You'll be a better kid if you just listen."
I always live in the present - I love the present. I cherish the future.
One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine
The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.
I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.
It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.
The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.
I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.
I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.
I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.
Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.
I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.
I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.
I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.
When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.
Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.
The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.
I don't think Muslims do hate America. I think that's what we hear and that's what we believe. I don't think that's true.
I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.
I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.
I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
I think we've unplugged and become very apathetic to a lot of things that are happening. There's so much going on and we're sort of disconnected.
Lily Tomlin said something years ago, and I'm paraphrasing, that you have to find humor in everything, because by finding humor, you find humanity.
Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."
When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.
What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.
To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.
I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.
Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.
Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.
Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.
I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want to, but then I asked her and she said 'yes.'
There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.
You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens?
"Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.
The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'
I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed
I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.
I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.
For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.
With 'Women in Hollywood,' I didn't direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood and how that intersects with issues relating to women and, frankly, sexism.