If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.
It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose. . . You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.
I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.
One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.
I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.
One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.
Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
In the stock market. . . You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness. Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance. To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.