I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.
Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.
A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.
When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference
You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.
If obstacles are large, jump higher.
None of us is as smart as all of us.
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but...
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
