Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.