Working Quotes

It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it’s not something predetermined – it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint’s and things of that sort.

If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.

In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.

I always wanted to make an album and it was an idea that came to me when we first started working on Aladdin.

I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn’t working.

I had been working early in my life in films – since I was 11.

I think Donald Trump needs to be very clear to Vladimir Putin.

Working in kitchens with Mexicans you always listen to the Spanish channel and that’s what I use. Whenever I cook I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.