“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.”
“People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.”
“Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.”
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
“Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?”
“Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.”
“Wherever you are - be all there.”
“Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.”
“The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.”
“I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.”
“The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”
“Friends are born, not made.”
