In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.
I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
