The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.
The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
I'm a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think 'The Waterhole' is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
