I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

Be focused on what God has called you to do

Peace is the only destination worth searching for.

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.