I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.

You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

I have to be creative to be happy.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

I never went to college, so I went to the library.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.