When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

What are you gonna help us with? That very tiny used condom?

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

On my football field, I know what bliss is. My team cuddles more than the missus. We won't inject drugs, just oodles of hugs. I warm up my team with some kisses.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

I see myself as a huge dork that laughs at my own jokes and forgets to shower sometimes.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

The political future for Democrats is daunting.