The last Christmas movie I really liked was 'It's a Wonderful Life, ' probably. It's sort of a schmaltzy movie, but it's not without its dark moments. It still gets to me every year.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

Loving God and your neighbor cannot exist without the other

A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.

If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.