When you do a Tom Cruise movie, you don't do a Tom Cruise movie and ask a lot of questions.

I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

Talking-head shows are just a camera, a sound guy, and then a PA writing down what you say and a producer asking you questions. And you're just supposed to rephrase the question and add a joke to it. Figuring out how to do that was super hard.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.

I definitely asked too many questions of my teachers and was probably a bit facetious at times.

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

If you assume away most or all of the questions or difficulties, you can persuade yourself of just about anything.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

I don't have any brothers and sisters, so I always relied on my parents to guide me or answer questions.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.