Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.
I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.
Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.
All that running and exercise can do for you is make you healthy.
Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.
Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.
The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.
It takes some silence to make sound.