To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.
I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.
Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
. . . True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.
Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their RomneyRyan bumper stickers on their cars.
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.