D. T. Max Quotes

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, "Yeah, you're very married." She runs the household. I refer to her as "the greatest director I've ever worked with."

There is nothing worse than bad drunk acting.

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

Another show I really enjoyed working on was Raising The Bar. I did four or five episodes of that show.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to Tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I’m joking or not.

If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich.

The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.

Bullingdon would never go co-ed. I'm not going to give anything away, but there are a couple of girls involved in our story and it doesn't end well for anyone.

Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

I know I haven't done it. I've done a couple of films, which were intended to go straight up. Thankfully they didn't. So now, I think that's what I need to do. I just need to grow as an actor.

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre… it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

I think New York is more stylish than London.

As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

For me, comfort is paramount.

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.

I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

This is what we’ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win.

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!

Whats special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.