I make movies I want to see.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Everyone has a story.

A writer walks in nature to wonder.

Dawn may not appear one to all. It depends on beholders how they look at life

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.