You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

NO one can say 'NO' to sin and 'Yes' to rightousness without the help of Holy Spirit.

I found Bill in the sky. In the stars. Like on your ceiling.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads

Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, "Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here." I find it vaguely sinister, even.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.