My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an afternoon to make a record. Punk isn't a music that you think of as chance-based, but exigency has a lot to do with it.
Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.
Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.
You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.
Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less. . . but that means I rarely sell.
Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you.
Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
Your ship was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog. . . coming around the cape she appeared in a shaft of sunlight. . . and what a sight to see! Glimmering as much as the ocean herself. Massive and beautiful beyond belief! Laden with treasures, happy times, friends, love, and laughter. Quick, you must PREPARE for her docking. . . you MUST make space in your life for her gifts. . . otherwise, just as quickly, she'll quietly slip back out to sea.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.
For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You're in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh.
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.
You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.