Helpful Quotes

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy… music is so helpful in that area of life.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to “‘clean'” it, and suddenly you can’t find anything?

I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.

When you’re writing there’s no one to collaborate with, there’s no material to look at. I haven’t adapted something yet, so, I’m sure that would be helpful. When you’re writing an original piece you have nothing.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

As a director you already have a script, you have actors… you have collaborators when you’re a director.

Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.