Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.
I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values.
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.
As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.
Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.
I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.
It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.
There's always this hump, this 1-week hump where the first-time actors have to get used to the fact that there's a camera in their face. It takes them about a week to get comfortable.
I take a lot of pride in helping people become great. I think that's an element of being a producer that people don't always take in: They want to be great for themselves, whereas I'd like to be recognized as having helped the most people get over the hump.
I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.
Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.
