Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.
If we start exposing what gets said in a grand jury, you won't get anybody to testify.
Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.
I was clear about the fact that my first film should be 'big,' since it's the start of your whole career graph.
Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.
The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay.
Political development should start at the grassroots.
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.
Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever.
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.
The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.
We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.
