The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The best stories don’t talk down to children—they invite them in.

There’s no such thing as ‘too much’ in art—only ‘not enough.’

我相信电影的力量，能够将人们传送到不同的世界和时代。

把自己的精神，培养得清净明澈；把自己的思想，澄清专一；把自己的胆识，培养得深沉敏捷；把自己的气魄，培养得坚强宏大；把自己的才干，培养得果敢决断；把自己的器量，培养得端正庄重；把自己的胸襟，培养得豁达宽容；把自己的节操，培养得严肃冷峻。

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers