Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

The future is here.

It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.'

There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Having a child is the best thing that could happen.

All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.