Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

...that's part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would.

We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .