Hanson Quotes

Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

That love of movies is very much alive in me.

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

Pittsburgh has this rich industrial past, when it was the heart of the U.S. steel industry, and it burned out as the industry burned out and moved elsewhere.

I don't think of the marketplace as teen-oriented or teen-dominated. I think of it as dominated by high-concept, in marketing especially.

Anytime something becomes widely condemned and taboo, it will be eroticized.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

I believe we are capable of great things.

Compassion is the litmus test.

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

Love is putting yourself second

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment, deficits, housing, energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has only made things far worse.

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the future of democracy.

Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.

It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun

The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world, it's like a line painted on the sidewalk.

I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.

Health, peace of mind, peak performance, and success in any area of life all depend upon doing the right thing at the right time, in harmony with the cycles of the Four Seasons.

In my experience, stress is the cause of all injury and pain.

Life is a continuum of problems to solve and lessons to learn. Once you accept this truth, then the problem you’re facing is no longer a problem but rather an opportunity to learn.

Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.

There is toned muscular athletic body in all of us. It is never too late to start taking care of the body you have.

I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.

There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?"Oh but my darling, What if you fly?