Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

We only serve God when we serve people

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.