“We do seminars, sometimes, for 7,000 people. These are people, predominantly women, who are seeking, who want to know more, who want to improve the quality of their lives, who want to find themselves.”
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“In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees.”
“The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.”
“In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.”
“Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.”
“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.”
“I can ask someone to let me into all aspects of their life for several years, but people have got to have that gift: that courage and that talent for opening their lives to the camera. Being candid is a gift, and that's what the audience responds to. Part of it is me asking, and part of it is just their inherent talent, which is what you are looking for when you make documentaries - people that are really going to let you in on what they are going through.”
“I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.”
“I admire people who are creative.”
“I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!”
“You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.”
“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.”
“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.”
“I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.”
“I want to play in a place people want to hear me.”
“Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.”
“Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.”
“I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.”
“I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.”
“I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people”