I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I have always wanted my colors to sing.

We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.