Take the high road; it's far less crowded.
I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
People always said, "I can't believe you made a movie that had no script. " Yeah, but here's the thing, if you've got actors who are used to that, and that's what they like to do, they're all good improvisers and they're all people that feel comfortable doing that, then you know, it's not that big of a deal. It's what you do.
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
With someone like Barack Obama, I think the whole America, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change, and change takes a long time because there are big issues that can't be changed overnight. But the one thing that will change dramatically is how we're viewed around the world. Once Obama is in there, the world will view Americans in an entirely different light. And that, to me, is a good thing.
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.