Way Quotes - Page 304

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a reverent way it becomes a sacrament to you.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?