I still have drive, but everything is relative.
When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.
How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
There is no best anything in art.
Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it's better than the other, I don't think that makes sense. Everyone takes their own path.
"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?'
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
Anything is respectable in its own realm.
Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
