When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

Whether people are making narrative cinema or experimental cinematic movie experiences, they all want the biggest screen possible and the quietest room and the most attention to every nuance and detail. Obviously, most people will not see the movie that way, but I can still hope for it, and I'd like to think we will be able to pull it off this time.

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.

The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.