Цитаты из книги Will

Memory is not a flawless recording of what actually happened. It's not a video of your experience. It's not even a photograph. It is your psychological, artistic rendering. It is more like an abstract impressionist painting of what happened than it is a pure, unfiltered depiction. And it's not fixed -the painting morphs, it fades or expands over time.

Sometimes you add colors to a memory that weren't there a year ago, or five years ago, or even collapse multiple memories and paint them into one.

And it dawned on me, If I don't want to be with me, why the fuck would anybody else wanna be with me?

and I'd learned a long time ago, I might break my promise to you, but I'll never break my promise to me.

It may be the most important question that we as humans ever ask each other. Does it matter to you how I feel?

In the case of Willow, when she was about eight years old, she got really into singing. This is not unusual for an eight-year-old girl. Eight-year-old girls all over the world love to sing and dream about singing onstage.

The only difference was that most dads would put her in the church choir, or maybe sign her up for a voice lesson or two.

I'm not that kind of dad.

I finally had it- my own version of Dallas. The picture was complete, and it was perfect. I had built a family empire this was beyond anything I'd ever dreamed.

And then, he got me: he said, "If you don't choose me to direct this film, please don't choose an American filmmaker, because Americans don't understand the beauty of the American dream.”

Gabriele was in.

If you kill one aspect of a woman, you kill the whole woman.

The movie star represents the warrior in the life-or-death battle against the brutality of the human condition.

And once your movie moves from entertainment to news, it's no longer a movie it's a cultural phenomenon.

She could make her own clothes, she could paint; it was the first time that I had ever seen someone hang their own art in their home. I thought that was hot.

That was the first time I ever saw Jada Pinkett.

It was love at first sight.

I wanted to do what Eddie Murphy was doing. I wanted to make people feel how I felt the first time I saw Star Wars.

I wanted to be Eddie Murphy in Star Wars.

So, for the first time ever, I said it out loud to JL.

"I want to be the biggest movie star in the world."

What's true about movies is also true about life: You tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you are.

There's a difference between talent and skill. Talent comes from God-you're born with it. Skill comes from sweat and practice and commitment. Don't just skate through this opportunity. Hone your craft.

The lyrics, as they appear on the final cut, are exactly as they came through. It was a pure stream of consciousness. I would later learn a term that resonated deeply with my experience at O'Hare that night: psychography, or automatic writing, is a theoretical psychic ability allowing someone to produce written words without consciously writing. (Skeptics call it self-delusion; I call it "another Grammy" and "my first #1 record.")

Everything rises and falls no matter how hot the summer gets, the winter is inevitable.

Change can be scary, but it's utterly unavoidable. In fact, impermanence is the only thing you can truly rely on. If you are unwilling or unable to pivot and adapt to the incessant, fluctuating tides of life, you will not enjoy being here. Sometimes, people try to play the cards that they wish they had, instead of playing the hand they've been dealt. The capacity to adjust and improvise is arguably the single most critical human ability.

The Alchemist is probably the most influential book I've ever read. It empowered my dreamer's spirit and validated my suffering. If Santiago could suffer, survive, and claim his treasure, then so could I.