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"Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere."
"Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important."
"What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!... [people] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real."
"I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself."
"Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us."
"Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail."
"You know what is a nice thought? Retirement."
"When the people you love are gone, you're alone."
"It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun."
"I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script."
"The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me."
"I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness."
"I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film]."
"I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit."
"How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror."
"Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that."
"I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality."
"Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary."
"The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had."
"Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object."