The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.
I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.
I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.
I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.
'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.
At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.
At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.
I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us.