“The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.”
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“I'd like to help other comedians and when I get a little older I'd like to open up a nice comedy club that is straight classy, with a straight restaurant and a chef. The whole thing, red carpet, and treating people nice, for people to come back and have a good time. That's the kind of comedy club I want to open up.”
“You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.”
“You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.”
“There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.”
“All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.”
“I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.”
“I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.”
“Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.”
“After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.”
“The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.”
“The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.”
“I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.”
“My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.”
“It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th episode. And it's my job, more than anybody else's, to keep that in mind. One season, in TV terms, is nothing. You need to hit it for three or four seasons, and then you're doing well, in TV terms. Then, you've done your job.”
“There's usually a few people who are like, "Say... what would that look like on our channel?" Interest can be expressed without directly expressing interest.”
“Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them. If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.”
“We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.”
“Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.”
“I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder of legacy.”