You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.

All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.

My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way