Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same. . . happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.
"Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly. " "I want to be a soldier. A hero. " "You'll grow out of it. "