Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.
It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.
Every single frame, every single shot in the movie, has a digital effect.
We're hoping that in three or four years time, we'll have to never have to answer another question regarding 'Star Wars,'. . . With the series, we're trying to do 100 hours worth and answer every single thing anybody has ever dreamed of, thought of, imagined or hoped for.
Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.
I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U. N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline; concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.