The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for - at first.

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is “Will this last forever?

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

I don’t trust air I can’t see.

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.