I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.

I chose the road less traveled. Now I'm lost.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.

Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.