Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L. A. Confidential, for example.
You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.
Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly.
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.