Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

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.

I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Everyone has a dream, so why not dream big... it just might happen!

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.

I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball