"I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film."

“It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.”

“The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.”

“The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.”

Source : Nicholas Roerich (1990). “Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas”, p.1, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

“The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.”

“Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.”

“It’s a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it.” Like a stage?” Evanlyn suggested. “Maybe they’re planning to put on a play?” Or an execution,” Horace said.”

“In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical density for which the total energy of the universe was exactly zero at the beginning.”

“First thoughts are not always the best.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 787-790), 1922.