I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

American democracy has been hacked.

We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

Michael Jordan on his worst day is ten times better than Kobe Bryant on his best day.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.