Pastoral Resources

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.