Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Making a movie is like getting married. You're like, "Am I going to marry this project? Am I ready for that kind of commitment?"

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

I was a dork hunter. That's hard to do. I fell out of a tree.

There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. “Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled.

Your success does not depend on the failure of others.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.