Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

I think anything's possible! Whatever you dream up, the Lord will have for you!

Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.