A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother's brother.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

Sunblock! I don't like to tan my face because it's bad for wrinkles.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

We Christians identify Christ with the sun, and the moon with the Church, the community of the faithful. No one, save Jesus Christ, possesses his or her own light.

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy.

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.