“People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.”
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“Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.”
“It was not Soviet people who formed the American Communist Party.”
“There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?”
“I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.”
“The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.”
“I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.”
“Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.”
“That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves.”
“My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.”
“I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.”
“I knew a dude whose entire check was going to his car. He didn't care. This is back when the Mustang 5.0 came out in, like, '82. Between paying the note and insurance, I think he had like $40 left. A lot of people knew people because of their car, and not them.”
“You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.”
“Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.”
“I hope everything works in our favor. The show is cool. It’s family fare. We ain’t aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we’re making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.”
“I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.”
“Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD.”
“We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on.”
“People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.”
“Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.”