When people go at war they cheapen things.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.

I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn't be able to vote and are inferior to whites.