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I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

I went to rent a car, and the guy goes, 'Do you want the extra insurance?' I said, 'Why...am I gonna get into an extra accident?

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.

I'm convinced that if the same opportunities were made available to everybody, people would want to better their lot in life.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.

We're covering all our bases so we can do whatever we want next time. That's how we're looking at it, rather than this just being an endless number of album/tour cycles.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

I hate not giving the people what they want.

Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

When the people decide they want peace more than security, they will find both.

That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.