John Quotes
I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean... I was like, Max you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blondes.
I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.
Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.
I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.
Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.
The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!
It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!
To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.
I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.
