We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.
When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Success. . is all about being able to extend love to people. . . not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.
Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.
I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely. . . Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.
This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.