On The Way Quotes

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.

I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.

We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.

The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

You were the first in every way that counted.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be.

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.

Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

[Donald Trump] thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.