You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.

I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.

I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.

We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.

Believe in yourself, take a bet on yourself. If you don't, then who will?

You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.

Thinking evil is making evil.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.