Al Barry Quotes

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

As soon as digital editing came about, I immediately made the switch to digital.

Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.

I would give the cameras to the kids in the swimming pools and they would play with them, and then I would collect them and we would upload it. If you're in the process, you're there.

I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.

Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.

I don't know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don't think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise."

We're never going to be the ultimate-insider look. You can do 50 insider looks at this Hollywood business, and the satire didn't intrigue me. I think others can do that.

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.

Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

There's so much to be afraid of.

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.

What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.

Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.

Homecoming's stupid." And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.