If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ.
As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.
I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the...
I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched. We do not feel tainted....
I squinted at the western sky behind Thaddeus, a blood-red smear melting into blackness. Twisting my neck, I glanced the opposite direction. My teeth clenched at a magnified, round moon nearly as scarlet as the portending sunset, its luminous face ha...
The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
Working opposite Max Greenfield is the best job in the world. He's just incredible.
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
Reality is about two things: nothing and the opposite.
The universe is about two things: nothing and the opposite.
Physics is about two things: time and the opposite.
Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.
Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
This is the opposite of the free market.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
