You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.

As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong.

I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.

I buy my Avengers tickets. But I think people are going to really get into seeing this other side of the world.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I've been.

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.