When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

A film is a machine made of images

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.