Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

A man ought to learn from his mistakes.

Whatever you is, Onion, " he said, "be it full.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.