DJ Paul Quotes

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

My background is in improv and writing.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

You just can't be scared to do things that you think are mistakes.

I'm going to do my job and I don't care if I'm not friends with anybody. I don't need to be best friends with all my co-workers to do a good job.

Sometimes if you've got a story that's interesting enough, you don't need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great.

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.

Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

Everybody should have a shelter dog. Its good for the soul.

No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.

Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that's all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.

Losing love is like a window in your heart.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.