Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.