I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

The mandate of the church is to promote kingdom expansion throughout the earth

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.

[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.