There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.

It is very important to support what you believe in.

If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

Alone, no one wins freedom.