There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

When you first start out, it's a big thing you're always like 'does my voice sound good?'

Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

I start with my shoes - I usually pack two pairs if I'm going away for four or five days, and I'll wear another one.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.

I miss the outspoken pop stars like Lily Allen.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to turn 40, which was the age my dad was when he decided he was going to start this farm in Arkansas.

They say aim for the stars, but I want to aim beyond the stars.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

No, I am not after huge stars. But I have no reservations about working with stars.

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

I'd like to see a day when we're less obsessed with stars and give due credit to everyone who is involved in the process of filmmaking and a change in the obsession with fair skin.