We're here to work, not to make friends,

Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

I have one passion. It is He, only He.

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.