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The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.
I love to see people just being regal in their own skin; it's just when they know who they are.
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.
So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.
I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.
Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
When we made 'Primary,' it was just one camera. We were trying to make ourselves inconspicuous.
In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.
I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.
I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.
When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.
There are only four things you can do on skis. Turn right, turn left, go straight, or sell them.
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.
I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
We can and must use our combined skills at every opportunity available to address climate change.
I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.
I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.
It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.
I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.
In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.
Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.