While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

I just hate digital. Looks ugly. Even if you were to shoot this anamorphic, which looks great, I just don't like it, it feels like video.

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by fullness not by reception.

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.