All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

She is truly beautiful, but she doesn't have a beautiful face to match her beautiful heart. True beauty lies in the HEART.

Confident people tend to evaluate their opinions alongside those of others and then follow their intuition.

The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day.

Let's not become too busy to keep in touch with those who really matter most and need us. Life's short but let's make an indelible purposeful and powerful impact with it

[Iran agreement] is one of the worst agreements I've ever seen drawn by anybody.

Thought and action must never part company.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.