For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.

Life gets more complicated and projects get more complicated after that.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I trace the letters on the tree behind us in the picture. No one knows what's churning inside of me. Crushing guilt...Pain...Relief. All mixed with knowledge that Trip is never coming back.

In a business, you've got to move on.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

It is very important what not to do.

Leaders do stuff that matters.

I want to be a mom who listens.

The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.