I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.
I grew up in the South London outer areas of Bromley and Croydon. Bromley and Croydon are interchangeable punch lines to any joke somebody wants to make about a shit part of England.
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.
In 'Black Panther,' I tried to preserve virtually all versions and interpretations of 'Black Panther' - including the Jack Kirby one, which was really tough to do - and make it work within current continuity.
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.
I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.
My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.
I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don't have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.
Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.
Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.