We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

Education is the realization of hope for the future.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

language is never neutral