We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie. "
In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down
You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.
Mencheres dropped his hands from my shoulders. “You know that’s what he wants. He’ll want to trade, you for her. ” “Then I’ll do it,” I said. Bones’s grip on me turned to steel. “No, you won’t.
A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.
I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.
I am a bit old-school.