In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.

Dream itSee itFeel itBe it

Ye have not because ye ask not.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.