Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.
Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor. " That was how we opened the semester.
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.