The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.
Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.
The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.
The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.
Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.
In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.