You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.
I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.
Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.
Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world.
Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.
Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.
I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.
Even as a kid, I read Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.