If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

You can’t always get it right, if you fail, and it will happen, accept it, jump back on and try again

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.

I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.