“I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.”
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“Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.”
“None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.”
“If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each other over, but they're incredibly real.”
“People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.”
“"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.”
“You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.”
“I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a place where traditionally one was unemployed. For 10 years, people were coming from all over the world looking for employment here, kind of an extraordinary phenomenon. That's stopped now.”
“The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.”
“When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.”
“If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.”
“I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.”
“Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.”
“Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.”
“There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.”
“I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.”
“Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities”
“People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.”
“Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.”
“We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.”