My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.
Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray
I thought the whole masturbation thing was really odd and really weird.
If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.