In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See

Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

The tears of God are the meaning of history

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

The tears of God are the meaning of history.

I love you’ is validated with action.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.

Having a baby can be a scream.

Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

You have to be a little aware of the emotions of the people who have invested with you.