Mantra Quotes

Asked if he felt besieged by the opposition to The Passion of the Christ (2004): Beseiged? No, not really. They`re pretty pathetic actually. I sort of look at them now and feel sorry for them. They`ve given their best shot, they kind of came out with this mantra again and again and again, `He`s an anti-Semite, he`s an anti-Semite, he`s an anti-Semite, he`s an anti-Semite.` I`m not. But they like to say that in newspapers. So it`s kind of how those, anything repeated often enough slowly amalgamates into some sort of accepted truth.

So, yes, we won for ourselves a criteria, a mantra, which is that we only make what we want to make in the way we want to make it. I believe we make universal stories for the world, but it has an Australian voice, and to maintain that voice you must be connected to your land. So the need to be in Australia motivated us to motivate Fox to build this studio down there, where they now shoot Star Wars and The Matrix, so it`s a wonderful facility.

(on The Outpost (1995/I)): "It was the best cast and the worst script. What can you do? The whole thing was us running around in some underground hallway, holding a stick with a syringe scotch-taped to it and chasing a long-haired body builder with this phallic thing that comes out of his mouth. It was just so silly. But the biggest challenge was trying to keep a straight face, before every take, we would chant `Monster movie, monster movie, monster movie.` It was our own little mantra to psyche ourselves up to get through the scene without laughing."

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in `92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration`s mantra. I can`t imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what`s on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

Her mantra has always been `never explain, never apologise` and she isn`t going to change her mind now.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

The person who regularly recites mantra attains liberation from the fears of disease and death.