W.J. Cameron Quotes

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.

You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.

It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

I've never been a fluffy sort of woman.

As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

I've never had a very great public life.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.