Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.

The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The book is man's best invention so far.

No two people see things the same.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.