Quotes About Involvement

By calling in the Vigilantes, we are asking them to do what we can't or won't do ourselves.

In everything I am an intense, rather coarse dilettante.

I just want to be able to communicate with my fan base.

I came up in the '80s and '90s - there was no engagement with the fan base.

Democracy fascinates me.

I've grown up with a lot of my family in the fashion industry, so I've wanted to be part of it for as long as I can remember.

We need to take a far more active role in love than 'Romeo and Juliet' would lead us to believe. Perhaps that's what Shakespeare's saying, in a way. We can't leave it all up to fate.

The fatherhood thing is easy - when you're there.

It's important to show that fathers do cook for their children. Mine sure did.

Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as politicians and as members of a community.

It is the responsibility of all of us to create a culture that encourages and enables fathers to spend more time with their families.

If you're bored and you look bored, that's your fault.

We are all in favor of the U.S. taking an active and constructive interest in Asia.

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

It makes me feel good, when people say you are important to the team.

People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.

There's nothing better than seeing people you know being able to work and support their families. Knowing you have a little hand in it? Now, that really makes you feel good.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren't filming.

If your financiers care about the movie, they will be involved in a very constructive fashion, but it can get out of hand very quickly, and that is something to be aware of in any type of filmmaking.