Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean there's a certain patience a certain discipline I think that religion helps you achieve.

Abstraction is real probably more real than nature.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct everything in nature is coloured.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

If I have been of service if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action if I am at peace with myself it has been a successful day.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion desire.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development and attaches her curse on all inaction.

For me making music is part social part interaction part collaboration.

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts 'cause they were cooler they had better taste in music for one thing I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

Everybody gets typecast in movies but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look so you have to fight that. If producers had their way I'd only be in action films but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

For me relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies and thrillers and Kurosawa films you know where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.