I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

Some people handle sweets better.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

For grief is crowned with consolation.