E.S. Russell Quotes
It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.
The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.
I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.
Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.
I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.
That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.
The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.
Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.
I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.
You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.
What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.
Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.
The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.
I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.
You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.
I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.
We can't dispose of the everydayness of people's struggles. We have to build a world that is ultimately supposed to be, very simply, everybody doing what they are happiest doing.
At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever. But people aren't connecting the dots, and that's what scares me.
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.
Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.
I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.
No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.
