There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

I've never done any Hallmark movies. I don't know why.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

I borrow bits from everyone.

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

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