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"Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film."
"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
"All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief."
"The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all."
"It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others."
"I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world."
"I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti."
"I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator."
"I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all."
"I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it."
"I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre."
"In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible."
"Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night."
"We have enough to do just trying to make our company what we want it to be. As far as whether I would like to own Marvel, sure, I'd like to own Marvel."
"If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs."
"Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?"
"Better to try understanding the sun than a woman."
"I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard."
"If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose."
"Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it."
