We are not artists. We are architects.
我们不是艺术家。我们是建筑师。
Every film is a journey, and every journey changes you.
Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
国家不是被废除的，它是自行消亡的。
写作是让不可见之物可见。
Nature is to be followed, but only when it is refined by art.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to understand the present.
自然界中每年的痛苦总量超出了所有体面的思考。在我写这句话的一分钟内，成千上万的动物被活生生地吃掉，许多其他动物在逃命，因恐惧而呜咽，其他动物则被寄生虫从内部慢慢吞噬，成千上万的动物因饥饿、口渴和疾病而死亡。
Your reputation is your most important currency—protect it fiercely.