I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.

Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy.

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

Do you not think that God will protect us?”“No, ” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

Our hearts may be strong and resilient against the trials of life, but they become weak and fragile against the trials of love.

Oh, sorry. I’m not . . . uh . . . interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

It took me a very long time to realize that inherently the materials have this beautiful quality without me having to impose meaning onto them.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.