Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.

I've never made movies to reach millions of people.

I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that - sometimes even 10 - and the shooting took five or six weeks.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

In many relationships that I've had people just try to own the other person.

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

The Kingdom of God is about peace, love, joy and righteousness

THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUYMannersMoralsRespectTrustPatienceClassIntegrityLoveCharacterCommon sense

It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises within ourselves.

Those.. we use to abuse in front of others..somewhere deep inside.. we wish to be like them..

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

When you're just using words, you're limiting yourself to everyday casual speak. As soon as you start to sing, you can unlock the stuff that's underneath.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.