The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.
I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.
Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.
Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor. " That was how we opened the semester.
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed. . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.