Eli Quotes
I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.
And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.
Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.
A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.
I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.
I want to stand out. After my career is over, I want people to say, 'He was different.' It's not to be outrageous. I just want people to know that when I played ball, I was having fun.
If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.
When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
I'm old school. I'm locked into my own little circle. If you cross the line, you're going to get bit. They'll always know where I'm coming from and once we hit the floor, there's no doubt.
It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.
We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
More voices means less trust in any given voice.
Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.
I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.