We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

I am cleaning my home but I don't clean my mind.

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

I don't like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what's at hand.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.

Film is a truly magical medium.