Quotes About Reflection

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

In a lot of ways life has come full circle for me, which I'm very grateful for.

What we take away from our school and college years is especially personal and rarely transferable to someone standing outside that circle of experience.

If you stay in the studio for a long period of time, you start to drive yourself around in circles.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons.

I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

I don't claim to have all the answers about how the afterlife works.

I realized that I love the quiet bits in most superhero films.

I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

As my friends will tell you, I am a superior agonizer. Believe me, you do not want me in the cockpit of an airliner. But in my defense, choosing an idea is also a high-stakes affair.

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

Any superhero, regardless of how different they are from Superman, recalls Superman in some way. They're either pushing against Superman or reflecting Superman; there's something about them that comes from Superman.