The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.
I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.
Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.
I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.
I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
The less I talk about being black, the better.
One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.
I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.
Movie is an industry without job security. As soon as a job is done, you have to find a job. But I think doing different stuff makes you better at other stuff: Acting makes you better at stand-up, which makes you better at writing.
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.