Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

To love her was a liberal education.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.