Audrius Quotes & Sayings

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page. — Jerry Bruckheimer

So many vague, as yet unanswered ponderings in my mind about social interactions became clear and moved into that happy, "situation now understood" part of the mind. — Peter Rogers

There is no such thing as a silent, personal epiphany. — Tim W. Burke

To accept life means to accept impermanence and emptiness of self. The source of suffering is a false belief in permanence and the existence of separate selves. Seeing this, one understands that there is neither birth nor death, production nor destruction, one nor many, inner nor outer, large nor small, impure nor pure. All such concepts are false distinctions created by the intellect. If one penetrates into the empty nature of all things, one will transcend all mental barriers, and be liberated from the cycle of suffering. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Because I'm a "strong person," the symptoms hit me by surprise. It was, as I write in the book, stinging in my eyes after Sunday that I thought was an allergy, until one day I sat in the car and decided to just let my eyes tear up so that whatever was in them would come out, and what came out were tears that wouldn't stop. It was literally a physical reaction that was my first indication there was anything wrong. — Barbara Brown Taylor

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye... — Angela Carter

But, Audrius, I have never taken the lift in my life! — Amor Towles

Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime. — Robert M. Morgenthau