My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.
I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.
I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.
Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.
It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly. " But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous. "
Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.
I'm not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.