Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.
I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the history of show business.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.
A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.