We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

In passion we trust, for passion finds infinity and says that is how many ways I can exist.

Fallen myths can instill venom.

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

I don't have any advice at all. I think we all make the films that reflect the kind of people we are; we all make such different films. There's not just one way of doing it.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

I really like my eyes, nose, and lips. I especially like my nose. I really like my lips too. I think my lips are sexy.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.