Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.

The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now."

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!