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When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

You need the art in order to love the life.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends.

You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.

You can be happy in any circumstances, you simply need to believe in God.

I don't need to Google myself.

Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.

I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

I love not having a daily routine, just having the things I need with me and going anywhere in the world.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

TV needs advertising for more than just the money. Advertising plays a significant role in creating a dynamic and vibrant medium and needs to be at the heart of the experience.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.

We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.

We need people to fight back. So many people are depressed, and they've become preoccupied with the negatives of this [Donald Trump] presidency. That can cripple people mentally.

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

[Donald Trump] has moved to admit that there is a conflict of interest now and he needs to do something.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.