True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always wish that you had more sympathy.

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.