Christopher Quotes
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'
WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.
It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.
TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about.
People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.
Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.
Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth.
When it comes to energy policy, I don't think that it's up to the individuals to make energy policy.
The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.
But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.
He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.
I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.
The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.
Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.
The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.
I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.
It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.
I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things
I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
