A good deed is a good deed.

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.

I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.

A flower that grows in the shade of another blooms slowly.

Basic geometric shapes communicate universal qualities common to all cultures. Practical design integrates them appropriately.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

World change comes from within.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Donald Trump is in a partisan election, so he views the role differently than Mitch Landrieu and I who are are trying to lead our cities in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner.

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.