For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind, He discovers the all-pervading Self.

Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.

we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.

Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.