Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
To light a candle is to cast a shadow...
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
Dori: Mr. Gandalf, can't you do something about this deluge? Gandalf: It is raining, Master dwarf, and it will continue to rain until the rain is done. If you wish to change the weather of the world, you should find yourself another wizard. Bilbo Bag...
Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is...
But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Dorothy: What would you do with a brain if you had one?
Wicked Witch of the West: How about a little fire, Scarecrow?
Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: Only bad witches are ugly.
Professor Marvel: Professor Marvel never guesses, he knows!
Uncle Henry Gale: Come on, everybody to the storm cellar!
Scarecrow: I've got a way to get us in there, and you're gonna lead us.
If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.
All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
Goggles: I like The Wizard of Oz. I like the Tin Man.
