When I was eight years old, I knew I wanted to make films.

Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

Mindfulness isn’t inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn’t inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that’s innate in all human beings.

i love purple and blue!!!!!

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them