Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.

Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage.

Put out great music, and that's that

The 6 elements of life are to laugh, give, share, enjoy, care, and live a strong and full life.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.