Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.

Things work out better when you're straight up.

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.