The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

You are quite the surprise, " he whispered softly, clasping her shoulders and eyeing her mouthwatering lips. "You have no idea what you're doing to me.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?

If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.