I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics of a lot of punk music and so on is very, life sucks and then you die, sort of theory. I feel life is cheaper and death is more attractive now than it was when I was an adolescent, as I remember. Suicide was a personal pathology when it was committed. There was no society approval of it, like there certainly is in Palestine and some quarters of Iraq.
Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others. . . . The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves