My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.