Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Smiles are the language of love.
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. That's what people will do, people will naturally tear stuff apart because they're trapped with it, they paid money for it. And they came into it wanting to love it. So all you can really do is piss off the audience. Unless you do things right.
Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.