When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business, 'Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.'
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.
I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted to chaos; I was addicted to self-harm, and I had to seek help at the hospital.
A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.
Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Life does not owe me a shred.
I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.
There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.
The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.
