Quotes About Author

I just hate this term of 'essential' staff, and 'non-essential' staff.

I realize money alone does not guarantee you the best fighters or support staff - it's all about relations.

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

The independent route was the best move for me. But I think I've maximized everything I could do independently. I've done everything out the mixtape market. I think getting the big machine behind you is the next stage when you've maximized the independent level.

Expressing my adoration for 'Chitralaya' Gopu, the living legend of unadulterated humor, has been in my mind for a while now. What better way to do it than bringing back his hit on stage.

I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.

'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

Ricky Gervais captured the staggering laziness that comes with a boring job.

Put 'Luis Suarez' into an Internet search engine, and up comes the word 'racist.' It's a stain that is there for ever. And it is one that I feel I do not deserve.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

When I wrote 'High Stakes,' I followed the classical format. I wrote an outline first, then a first draft, then got feedback and rewrote and rewrote it. I'd never done that before.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.