J. F. Stone Quotes

There are good characters and bad characters.

I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

I just get my news from the Internet.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

If I had a dollar for every time I smiled secretly having you in my mind I think my bank account would show up millions.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at.

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

We have enormous challenges in front of us.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those are old schools too.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.

Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.

I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.

I feel like I am what I am.

I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

Horses are very difficult to shoot.

People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.

I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated in the future.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

I think John F. Kennedy was the last great hope. And that's why I dwell on that subject. He was someone who could stand up to the militarist element in our society.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

Each actor requires a different language.

Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.