Quotes About Engagement

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

Approaching people is not - it's ironic that it's what I do - but it's not necessarily what I enjoy doing. Later on, I'm fine. Once we get talking I have a great time but not in the beginning.

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

Who is here with you?" "Don't stop," she begged. "Who is here with you?" he repeated, harshly this time. "You are." "What is my name?" "Reyes

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.

I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time.

I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd - they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won't sit down.

Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"