Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.
If I could be somebody, it'd definitely be Brad Pitt. I love the way he looks.
I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.