If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.
Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of finding a way to show it and tell the story, in a way that brings in the audience.
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.
Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction. . . The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature. "
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.
No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
If you're working a fight with let's say John Ruiz and. . . anyone and Ruiz goes jab, jab and grab, you better see whose landing the punches before it becomes a wrestling match.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.