I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life, ' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.

Daddy is jive talkingand showering the stripperMommy is sleepwalkingwhile changing baby's diaper

I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

Lots of birthday wishes Are sent to you today Hope your day will be One of the best You've ever had!

Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

By learning to create technology girls learn to speak up...