I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn't allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn't understand why!
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.
To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.
The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it's a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn't understand that distinction is they'll want to recreate too much of what's on TV.
Probably the biggest problem I had was I didn't understand the importance of scheduling.
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?
We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.
I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?
