When CNN launched in the early 1980s, everybody said: A 24-hour news network won't work. They launched, they did ok, CNN went almost bankrupt because of the risks they had taken, they got bailed out, and 25 years later CNN is a huge global brand. I think the same is going to happen in digital. If you look at the younger generation, there is a huge consumption of digital media and almost no consumption of print or traditional television. Eventually money will follow that. It is just a question of which companies win, how long it takes to get there and what kind of model you need to apply.
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you. " And, I'm like, "Not really. " When you're doing a science fiction movie, it's almost exactly the same.
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
The word "story" is short for the word "history. " They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting. . . if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same;. . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it. . .
