What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Literacy in itself is no education.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.