I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

the militay dont start wars, politicians start wars

Too much Oil, gonna spoil YA!(There Will Be Blood 2007 - Movie)

There are three difficulties in authorship: – to write anything worth publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it. — Caleb C. Colton [1780-1832]

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.