I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.
Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
It's clear to me that the NRA isn't going to stop trying to meddle in making this a safer state.
I have no doubt that Russia tried to meddle in our election. They're going to continue trying to - just like they have my entire lifetime.
It is not possible to completely eliminate mediation between you as an observer and the history you are trying to understand.
I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
That's what my song 'Medication' is about - everyone trying to make you a zombie.
Something like 'Knock Knock,' I was trying to do a Joe Meek, 'Johnny Remember Me'-type thing.
As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.
I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
Successful entrepreneurs are pretty methodical about the problem they're trying to solve.
