You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are young.
I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
Whatever you want, you can make things happen.
I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, "Gosh, do I want to be on a series?"
People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.
Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.
I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.
I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.
I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.
I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.
I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.
I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.
I don't want to travel.
The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.
Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
