When creating 'Cowboy Bebop,' I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.
There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.
I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard.
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.
The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
