I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

You do not get peace in this world until you are broken into pieces.

My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

The best revenge is living well without you.

I sound the same regardless if I'm 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that's the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I'm that type of person.

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.