I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.
It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.
I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just. . . going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it. " - Marcus
I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.
I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.
Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.
An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.