I.B. George Quotes

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

Sincerity is moral truth.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Football is a sad game.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at ['The New Celebrity Apprentice' show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he's cool.

You have to watch what you eat.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

Most of my influences are from the past.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.

Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.

I'm always being inspired .

I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?

I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.

I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is funny. Some great one-liners, some great banter between him and the contestants [on "The Apprentice" ]. And he's good!

I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.