David Quotes

The Klit brothers should first fight each other, and the winner should fight me.

I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

My favorite web site is probably YouTube.

If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

If you are not playful you are not alive.

I do believe that painting can change the world.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I'm fed up with being bossed around.