Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.

To be without supernatural infusion of divine love and light is to have lost the glory

You may be a good warrior... But you've made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.

It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.