The problem is that you can’t really read a script saying, ‘Hmmm, I’ll just see what this is.’ You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It’s really difficult to get uninvolved.
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
There’s social media where people’s politics are out there, they’re forwarding articles and seem engaged, but it’s only online. We tweet and pat ourselves on the back, thinking we have done something, said we’re interested, but it needs more work.
When I met my wife, I was forty-six, and it was love at first sight. Every day, my love grew deeper as I found out about her family values, that her parents were still together, that she wanted kids. So we fell in love, got engaged, got married, and a month later, we were pregnant!
I’m glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?
Part of the gestation of ‘The Wall’ was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what ‘The Wall’ eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
I think people who speak and write about climate change and environmental degradation need to convey how interesting and important this topic is, because I’m not sure people will feel empowered to help if they don’t feel engaged and called to action.
We’ve had a difficult legacy of 40 years, and cleaning up is not going to be a one day job. But we are engaged in a systematic effort, we have not allowed formation of new militia groups, and we are reforming the local police systematically so that there won’t be abuse.
I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior’s picture, ‘married’ or ‘engaged.’ I had marriage on the brain.
