If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.
Trumpeting diversity undermines what you are trying to achieve in the first place. It should happen without fanfare.
I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.
With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.
Credit card companies and banks usually aren't shy when they're trying to sell you something. Heck, Wells Fargo didn't even bother to ask consumers before signing them up for as many as two million checking and credit card accounts.
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!
In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.
I don't know that many guys have ever been able to accomplish being able to win at every single active track that they've made starts at, and I look forward to trying to complete that feat.
I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.
When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.
Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.
