I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That’s how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.
When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn’t stand for it.
From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it’s happening it feels like a roller coaster you can’t get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.
Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
My first son didn’t really take a bottle, and I didn’t like giving bottles.
I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it’s such a cult classic. I’d seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.
When I made my first film, I didn’t think of it as directing, so it wasn’t like I set out to become a director.
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
First master the fundamentals.
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.
What comes first in a relationship is lust – then more lust.
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.
And, he’d seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.
Well the first thing I’d say is that I’m not sure exactly what I’m supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I’m remorseful.