When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.
There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
People have really taken Mrs. Brown to their hearts. I think she reminds them of their own mammies... Fierce and scary but full of love.
I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.
The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.
You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.
Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.
