All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.

People are lazy that’s why today’s technology is crazy.

There is a unique Math behind the very notion of life, I seek it.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Faith grows with exercise. You see God work miracles.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.