One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.
You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.
Commander Shears: I can think of a lot of things to call Saito, but "reasonable"... that's a new one.
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.
I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.
I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
They need only to look at him, hear his name, and the last of reason goes up in smoke. They sink into a state of befuddlement.
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.
