John Quotes

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

Quite honestly, ... there's never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That's all real, no (computer trickery).

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.

I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.

I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more.

I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

You don't have to worry about the guy that threatens to beat you up. Worry about the guy that shows up on your doorstep, looking for a fight.

You've go to have a heart to be in the WWE, but its got to be black. Just like me.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.