Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

When twilight sleeps holding the nightIn your arms you embrace me tightRunaway hours clenched by kisses More of your love my heart misses

Archomai is where believing is being.

Live a sacred life in the fullness God’s grace.

Motivation triggers luck.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.