Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.
Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.
One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.
It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.
No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.
You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.
If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.
Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
