As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.

All things are possible if you believe...

If you are going to be a prophet why not say things that bring love into your life! Think about Philippians 4:8.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.

I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these.

Data is not intelligence.