John Quotes

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

Our issue isn't when we get something done, ... it's how appropriate it is when we do it.

It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment

The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.

Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

A band is like a family. There's love and hate.