I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.

We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?