Rumi Quotes
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
Quotes to Explore
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
