To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.
Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
My 'new' knee now feels like a bionic knee compared with my old one.
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
