J. R. Todd Quotes

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he's at a high point right now.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.

One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.

I like Cilantro, but you don't have to.

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

Les Miles looks like the mad science genius.

Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.