My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.