We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.
[first lines] Daniel: [giving instructions to the pallbearers] Just, uh, straight through there and to the left, please.
Lt. Col. Bill Cage: [in dire situation] We've been through worse.
Sam: How's your head? Andrew Largeman: I shall live through the day. Sam: Cool.
[from trailer] Imperator Furiosa: Wanna get through this? Let's go!
Buck: If there's anything I don't like, it's driving a stagecoach through Apache country.
[to Sabertooth, who has just been thrown through the wall by Storm] Toad: Quit playin' around!
Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.
Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
