Quotes About Influence

I will say this: Boy, did I get lucky to work with Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

If I change people's lives, that's all that matters to me.

What we do and say and show really matters.

It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

I am becoming a man; I am maturing day by day. The influence of being around men helps me and makes me be more professional.

That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son.

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Everyone around me has maximum respect for my vision.

Trump's election was dispiriting and confounding to most traditional political players - perhaps nobody more so than Murdoch. Still, Murdoch did what he has always done: made sure he had maximum influence with the new president.

The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

My biggest inspiration is Audra McDonald.

I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.

It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power.

Might was the measure of right.

It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

Yeah, I would not want a foreign entity to meddle in our election; you know, a government. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want that; I'm American.

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

TV has always been a very strong and powerful medium for women.