You have to believe in the arthouse, if you will - the emotion, the conflict, the who am I, which will always be an unanswered question. If you do it right, you have a smaller drama, and a great movie.
In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.
As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.
Men's brains are smaller than those of women so they can fit into their penises.
I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.
Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. . . The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.
Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.
Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket prices are high. Otherwise they'd just stay home, buy DVDs or download movies. But if there were only big budget movies it would be impossible for the film industry to survive. So I emphasize the importance of mid-range films. But those films need the support of theatre owners. The theatre chains have to have the vision to realize the need to support smaller films for the growth of the domestic film industry.
It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.
At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.
All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.