What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.
I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.
I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.
From where I started to where I'm at right now I'm loaded in retrospect to the opportunities that I have. As far as money and the scheme of the world, I don't cash in. I do films because I'm sensitive and maybe stupid, and that I feel like I'm going to have fun on and feel like I'm going to have a good experience with. It's not about punching in and selling soap.
I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say. " I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.
There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.