I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.
I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.
Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.
Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are
A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
A savage place! As holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath the waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her Demon Lover!