When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
What’s your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?” “Don’t you know it?
It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done
I bet the very first piñata was surprised. “Oh, hey a party! Cool! What’s the occa— HEY, WHAT THE HELL, KID?
It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.
Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.
The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.
I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it.
