I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That is how it should be. And then other team members can give their creative inputs.
