I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.