As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

What is human is immortal!

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

You know it's a perverted crowd when a guy is screaming at you to take your shirt off.

If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.