Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.