Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
I write from my stomach.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
He that sends a foole expects one.
Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable
. . . what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?
The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.