There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.
I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.
Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.