J. R. Todd Quotes

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should.

They may be stupid, but they sure are fun.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

Аs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.

On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.

I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

I have a podiatrist appointment at 2.

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want.

Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.

I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.

I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.

I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.

Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all

You've got to get your eyes around and see what's coming in your face.

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

People cant help how they look.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

My dog's a gentleman.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.