Were Quotes

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Miles' sessions were not typical of anybody else's sessions. They were totally unique.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.