It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.
I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film. " But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures'. . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.
I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.