In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

There’s nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, ‚Well, okay, I’m going to do something of high artistic worth.‘

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Actor’s life is very long.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

All I do is make music.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

She’s a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Time discovers truth.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process – maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like ‚Lights Please‘ happens like that.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.