Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world. ”

Vampirism is like celebrity now. Vampires are these eternally young, thin, sexy apparitions of perpetual nightlife and absolutely nothing like their folkloric European boogeyman predecessors. We don't even make our vampires sleep in coffins anymore, or the ground. ”

In the future, I'd like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I'd be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing. ”

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible. ”

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition. ”

When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths. ”

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff. ”

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend. ”

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased. ”

Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country. ”