The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.
It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.
Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.
I don't mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.
With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.
I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.
Liking who you are and liking what you do can make you an incredibly successful person.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.
If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.