People grow and change and develop through their experiences, so ultimately you have to go with what's in the room - the feeling you get from them and what the camera picks up.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

If you cast your supporting cast well, it should be seamless. You shouldn't even notice who's a big part and who's a small part. A good cast enriches everything.

When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

Making love with you is even more wonderful than making music."He drew her closer. "Och, Sarah, you _are_ my music.

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

History-writing is not a visit of condolence.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

I'd always find the positive in someone.