Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind,the highest End
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.
'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.
It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.
The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.
Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.
