Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?
Every project starts with a story.
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.
Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.
I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.
Beauty draws more than oxen.
Hinduism. . . gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Santana Dharma.
I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.
The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.