Many confuse understanding with believing.
To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.
To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.
To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.
Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It is performed on the battlefield, in our daily tasks, in the marketplace, the factories, at school, in the offices, and in the halls and corridors of government. . . . But only when one truly gives of himself and without compulsion.
You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.
Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.
My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.