Quotes & Jokes by Steve Martin / page 11
That's a device. I like to think about it as a little bit of a mystery ... the director describes it as a statement of authorship. It's kind of a sophisticated concept, but I like to think of it almost as my character looking back intellectually, but not at an advanced age.
All of those things make it look like a really hard transaction to pull off. But it can be done.
While my fervent hope is we can get the entire amount. I think we need to have some idea what we would lose.
I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and I was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: they're crouching and hidden.
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
Hello, this is Harris. I'm in right now, so you can talk to me personally. Please start talking at the sound of the beep.
As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
I just brush it off and try to make a joke about it. Over the years it's been interesting.
We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.
We are just happy that we are here in Brazil and that this was a good ending.
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
I wrote a novel this year called "Shop Girl", and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, "If you think you`re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending... that`s going to cost you."
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.