Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.
The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it
A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.
Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
If we had no language we'd have nothing.
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?" "So the minstrels say," said Éomer. "Then let us defend it, and hope!
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.