The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
I'm not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women - I mean, obviously, your first thing is, 'What do you want your guy to look like?' And I'm not the tall, dark, handsome guy.
It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?
For Delta blueman Robert Johnson and his contemporaries, the train was the eternal metaphor for the travelling life, and it still holds true today. There is no travel like it. Train lines carve through all facets of a nation. While buses stick to maj...
This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of marriage largely in terms of erotic love, then compatibility ...
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tuesday? But at eight, 10, 12, you don't realise you'...
[at a seminar, Charlie Kaufman has asked McKee for advice on his new screenplay in which 'nothing much happens'] Robert McKee: Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corru...
Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every one follow his own inclination and habits; you cannot r...
Let me tell you what I think about your fucking ," he said, his voice dripping with venom as he pushed past Liam. "You sit up in your room and you pretend like you want what's best for everyone, but you don't do any of the work yourself. I can't tell...
Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?
...What do you do with all your money?" "Me and the French hoard gold.
You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.
When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.
Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
Don’t think too small about what God could do in your life—be prepared for God to do a big thing.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
