L.A. Paul Quotes

I approach every role from scratch.

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them

You will get your difficulties with the point electron.

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.

To get nowhere, follow the crowd.

Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

There's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.

If you're fortunate to have talent and getting paid for something you love doing. All you've got to do is perform for 90 minutes.

I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.