The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only empties today of its strength.
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center you can be left so empty and void.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert the empty space the drama.
But to me nothing - the negative the empty - is exceedingly powerful.