What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie. "
In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down
You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.
Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.
Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.