Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.
I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.
Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.
People will justify whatever for a good cause.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.