Everybody's family has problems.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function.

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.