Quotes About Impact

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

What I do is really helping people in maximizing their income and to live the lives they want to live. I effect they're families, I effect their beliefs about themselves and it gives me so much joy

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

It's important to give back to the community. I want to make a difference in the world!

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.

I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.