I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

You have abundance all around you.

Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to a well-worn path.

If you don't believe in yourself, How can you ever believe in another?

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.

Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.

We are not to be alarmed when Satan hinders us, for it is proof that we are on the Lord's side and are doing the Lord's work. In His strength, we will win the victory and triumph over our adversary.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

Survival's the thing, isn't it?

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.