"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more."
"When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like."
"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing."
"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic."
"The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures."
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!"
"In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything."
"We're changing the world with technology."
"Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done."
"If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk"
"When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you."
"If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes"
"When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you."
"The world is full of actors pretending to be human"
"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."
"I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope."
"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart."
"I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world."