Al David Quotes

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

I think people have to be given - or take - the permission to say that something is nothing. Just because it's in a museum doesn't mean it's anything.

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like people, and it grows out like a nautilus shell.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

I have to say, that's pretty typical for artists, kind of embarrassingly typical for artists that everything is all about selection.

What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world.

I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it - I was interested in things like that.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.

If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

Ive always been pretty energetic.

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

I'm very goal oriented.

I would say acting on stage is my first love.

I never say never, but I'm really enjoying the freedom I'm having right now.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously, the audience is, "Oh, this isn't so bad."

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.