I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.
I don't have many easy songs.
This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.
Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.