I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

Make sure you don't become the very thing you find yourself fighting against.

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.

The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with Zacchaeus and the prostitute in John 8.

I'm in love, with a higher love!

I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.

I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth.

The wind and the sea and the storm were his domain and I wanted nothing to do with them any longer. I just wanted Cain.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

I'm really a one-man band.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

The noblest revenge is to forgive