I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.

take free food or tea from anyone talking about Godand find Heavenits gotta be out therefor there must be Godand how could any talk of good or God be wrong

When it becomes acceptable to kill another man or woman, childhood dies.” whispered Laurence. “When it becomes acceptable to kill a child…humanity dies.

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.

I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.