Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed

Don’t forgive people until they understand their mistakes.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.

The best education in film is to make one

If you don’t trust, you will die if not physically then emotionally. To do anything in life, you must have faith.