S.L. Ross Quotes

Reminding is the essence of organizing.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.

Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

I'm pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I'm thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.

Before you can be all deprecating it's helpful to be self-deprecating.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

I want the roast to be like a party where everybody goes and has a good time.

I like to roast things from the inside out. I like to know what's going on.

My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go home and tell their family, oh, my gosh.

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore.

My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult.

As soon as you start analyzing comedy is when the world starts to fall apart, and we're second guessing it. And we are way too sensitive.

I can't defend someone else's jokes. I can only defend my jokes, and I have to live with my own jokes.

You have such a huge career ... behind you.

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

South Park called...they want their everything back.

I think I'm vision-impaired!

Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.

Everyone has a different bump card and when it's up, it's up.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.

More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson.

Look at Abi Titmuss. This year she's been tied to more bed posts than David Blunkett's guide dog.

Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be.

Quite honestly, there are days when I don't need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.