P.J. Gordon Quotes

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

You're gone. No mailing address. But I send you letters anyway.

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

I didn't really like doing commercials.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.

Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

Making little videos that you know are going to be on tiny windows is a whole different thing. I don't know what it's going to lead to necessarily, but it's certainly fun.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.

For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.

Killing time takes practice.

Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.