Did Quotes

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.