"Writing the short story is essentially an act of grace. It's not a matter of will so much as trust. I try to let the story do some of the work for me. It knows what it wants to do, say, be. I try not to stand in its way."

“I said to my husband, 'my ***** have gone, my stomach's gone, say something nice about my legs.' He said, 'Blue goes with everything.'”

“Once you're signed to a label you compromise.”

“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”

“Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!”

“If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest of brambles and entanglements with freedom and ease. If, on the other hand, you think that with practice the forest of brambles and entanglements will altogether disappear, then right from the beginning you are hopelessly entangled and won't find your way.”

Source : John Daido Loori (2009). “The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans”, p.169, Shambhala Publications

“I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. My addiction is wrestling.”

“A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.”

“As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best.”

Source : Source: collider.com