J. R. Todd Quotes

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.

I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done.' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

I have never used steroids. Never.

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.

It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.

Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.

Of course, marketing and publicity does an amazing job of prepping everybody for that, but there's nothing like sitting there and experiencing the movie.

People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear.

I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me.

Love is not a promissory note.

I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation.

Different development itself runs the threat of making life shapeless.

One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.

To live in the moment and in the future at the same time would seem to me to be the trick.

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.

Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

To me, the script is a living, breathing organism. Comedy is something that is ever-changing and ever-flowing with the vibe and the mood of the movie.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.