Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

There are no rules in filmmaking

My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.