David Quotes

The audience requires not information but drama.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.

If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.